One of the most significant invasive species threats to Great Lakes sportfish, sea lamprey, is on the decline after ...

Left untreated, the invasive sea lamprey is a complete menace. During COVID, Thornton revealed that one lake exploded with a ...

For the sake of first-hand reporting, the Peabody-award-winning journalist Katie Thornton let a creature known as the vampire ...

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming years ...

Chalk it up to another unfortunate side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blood-sucking lampreys are back. Sea lampreys are parasitic fish from the northern Atlantic and Baltic, western Mediterranean ...

Lake County is blessed to be located near some wonderful waterways — Lake Erie and the Chagrin and Grand rivers, to name a few. These bodies of water are natural treasures that require care and ...

The U.S. and Canada collectively spend tens of millions of dollars per year to fight invasive, sport fish-attacking sea lamprey in the Great Lakes, a control effort that's spanned generations. But ...