BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Federal biologists have wrapped up their annual effort to control sea lamprey in Lake Champlain. Officials in Vermont and New York have been battling against the sea ...

“Unlike non-native landlocked populations in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain where various fisheries have been negatively impacted, sea lamprey play a vital role in our riverine ecosystems.

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 trout ...

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 Lake Matoaka in ...