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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will be applying lampricides in Cattaraugus Creek from May 6 through ...
The Great Lakes where sea lamprey control efforts were most cut during COVID-19 had the biggest surge of the invasive species ...
That means DEC, along with its partners in the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ...
Sea lamprey are one of the nastiest aquatic invasive species ever after they got into the upper Great Lakes in the early 20th ...
In mid-February, twelve of the agency's full-time, probationary employees contracted by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to work on its sea lamprey control program were laid off in a mass firing ...
Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) have been chemically controlled in the Great Lakes with the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) for over 60 years. Recent experimental and theoretical ...
This success follows a decades-long program to control sea lamprey, a parasitic fish harming lake trout. The cooperative effort between New York, Vermont, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
Newly published research from U.S. Geological Survey looked at more than 25 years of annual sea lamprey data, including annual adult populations of the eel-like fish and the number of wounds ...