Last month's federal staffing cuts and hiring freezes threatened the sea lamprey control program. Now, it has permission to ...

Federal cuts could allow over 1 million lamprey to survive, consuming nearly 5 million pounds of fish and resulting in $105 ...

Some people call them "eels", but they have nothing in common with anguillid ... to as "Agnthans", meaning literally "without jaws". Instead, the adult lamprey has "cusps" in its mouth, hardened tooth ...

eel-shaped fish. The lamprey has a disc-shaped mouth filled with sharp teeth that it uses to suction to the side of a fish. Its scientific name is Petromyzon marinus, Latin for "sucker of stone ...

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 ...

With a toothy, suction-cup mouth it uses to latch onto other ... to remove references to the sea lamprey as a type of eel. Though it resembles an eel, it is a fish. Perhaps you noticed: This ...

“This ladder will have openings through its baffles (vertical walls) to give lamprey a more direct path upstream to spawn ... (and) improve overall passage for our eel-like fish ...

Without the ability to hire seasonal employees to implement its work, the Sea Lamprey Control Program faced the risk of losing its battle against the invasive eel-like creature.

For several years, the presence of Least Brook lamprey eels (Lampetra aepyptera), a sensitive species of non-parasitic freshwater lamprey, has been casually observed in tributary streams surrounding ...