The shortnose cisco, a species of freshwater whitefish, likely went extinct in the Great Lakes during the 1980s, scientists ...

Sea lampreys are an invasive fish that entered the upper Great Lakes accidentally through shipping canals starting in the ...

But she noted that even if only 10% of the 1,000 or more in Bear Creek survived to become parasites, that's at least 100 lampreys that could get into Lake Michigan and kill as much as 4,000 pounds ...

Lamprey larvae live in some tributaries where they transform to parasitic juveniles that migrate into the Great Lakes and kill a variety of fish. Infested tributaries are treated with lampricides on a ...

The mussels are so abundant, scientists estimate they have the potential to filter all of the water in Lake Michigan in ...

Biological invasions sometimes are seen as an inevitable result of modern life, but like other human impacts on inland waters ...

The DNR considered a similar assist to cisco populations on the Lake Michigan side ... "After 60 or 70 years of trying to control sea lamprey, we control them every year but we still haven ...

Getting rid of an invasive species is not an easy feat — that's how they came to be called "invasive species" after all. In ...

The Shortnose Cisco was thought wiped out by invasive species and overfishing decades ago from where it was known to live, in ...

The DNR considered a similar assist to cisco populations on the Lake Michigan side ... "After 60 or 70 years of trying to control sea lamprey, we control them every year, but we still haven ...