The Great Lakes in North America hold 21% of the world ... s state fish since it is native to the state’s lakes. The Atlantic ...

More than a century ago, human activity introduced the sea lamprey, native to the Atlantic Ocean, into the Great Lakes, where they began gobbling up local fish, from salmon to lake trout to walleye.

Step back and look at the bigger picture, and the importance and cultural significance of Great Lakes steelhead suddenly come into focus. It's no secret that the steelhead (and salmon) that run ...

Then new technology opened up the markets for Great Lakes fish far and wide ... was managed by introducing another non-native species in the 1960s: Pacific salmon. Salmon became very popular with ...

A single lamprey will eat about 40 pounds of fish during its lifetime and grow to about 2 feet long, according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. The sea lamprey is native to the Atlantic ...

Lamprey wounds on fish increased significantly in Lake Ontario — on chinook and coho salmon also ... native to the Atlantic Ocean. As canals better connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic ...

lakes and ponds in the nation. Maine is the only state with wild populations of Atlantic salmon. Yet these sea-run fish face significant threats as they attempt to migrate thousands of miles from ...

Over millions of years, generations of young salmon have migrated great distances ... showed that benzodiazepines could alter behavior in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), but they did so under ...