An invasive species, sea lamprey nearly drained the life out of ... At a research lab in Hammond Bay, Michigan, a team of scientists looked for a solution to the lamprey problem in chemistry.

With their eel-like bodies, vampire teeth and suction cup mouths, the main characters of a new documentary resemble something out of the "Dune" science fiction films. The sea lamprey nearly destroyed ...

Within a decade after the sea lamprey arrived in Lake Michigan, commercial lake trout harvests began to plummet. In 1943 Lake Michigan commercial fishermen landed 6.9 million pounds of lake trout ...

The Great Lakes Fishery's unique pest control program is close to eliminating the sea lamprey, a parasitic fish threatening ...

A new film explores a massive effort from scientists, governments, and small businesses to save the Great Lakes from invasive ...

The DNR will hold a Feb. 13 hearing on a proposal to establish a commercial fishery for lake trout on Lake Michigan.

The Sea Lamprey This eel-like creature fastens itself to fish and sucks their blood. Within the past 25 years it has invaded Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and destroyed their teeming population of ...

A new film spotlights the sea lamprey, also known as "Dracula of the Lakes," a species which pushed Great Lakes fisheries to ...

The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and scientists battled back. The new film ‘The Fish Thief’ explores the fight.

Narrated by J.K. Simmons, “The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery” covers the sea lamprey invasion and tells a story of how society and science united to save local fish. It is slated to be ...

in Lake Michigan in 1936, in Lake Huron in 1937 and in Lake Superior in 1946, according to the GLFC. Through the mid-1900s, the sea lamprey was a driving force in the "collapse of the Great Lakes ...

Thanks to intensive lake trout stocking and sea lamprey control efforts ... set by state and federal fisheries managers, Lake Michigan now has a substantial population of lake trout, including ...