DESCRIPTION: Pacific lamprey are slender, eel-like fish that are dark blue or brown in color and grow to about 30 inches long. They have lateral eyes, lack paired fins, and have no scales. Adult ...

Imagine a fish that is hatched in freshwater, lives its early life in the rivers and streams of California, then makes a massive migration to the ocean where it lives for several years, then migrates ...

A new $8 million project at the Bonneville Lock & Dam aims to make it easier for Pacific lamprey to migrate along the Columbia River. The project, currently under construction on the Washington ...

Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ...

Great Lakes Fishery Commission Share With all the political and cultural divisions throughout this country and, drilling down on the map, in the Midwest — where Illinois and our adjacent states ...

The Great Lakes sea lamprey control program is tasked with targeting the invasive eel-like fish that threatens fish across the region. Credit: A. Miehls/Great Lakes Fishery Commission Sweeping ...