[Newsbot]

Title: Vampire-like eels pose threat to Great Lakes fish
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2016-03-03 12:02:22
Canadian

[uwish]

these fucken things are nasty, they will kill the fish they are attached to by slowly sucking the life out it.

These things are very hardy and would likely survive conditions that most FW fish would not do well in. Going to be very difficult to control.

[fifeboy]

Not---eel, Agnatha

[fifeboy]

Not---eel, Agnatha!

Sea Lampery, now lake Lamprey thanks to the S. L. Seaway. But that's progress!

[PluggyRug]

Caught many of those in the river Dee in Wales. Usually in the tidal areas.

[Hyack]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

Caught many of those in the river Dee in Wales. Usually in the tidal areas.

Is there anything they can be used for, food, fertilizer, leather.....???

[BartSimpson]

$1:

"Some of these children will end up owning land, where we have to apply lampricide into rivers," he said. "And we need to get permission to access their properties to do these treatments."

Wow, three cheers for Canada! Down here you'd get shot if you told the gubmint they couldn't come on your land to spray some shit in your water.

[PluggyRug]

Hyack Hyack:

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

Caught many of those in the river Dee in Wales. Usually in the tidal areas.

Is there anything they can be used for, food, fertilizer, leather.....???

Join a few together, they make good boot laces.

[Delwin]

$1:

Western culinary tastes do no consider the lamprey eel to be edible so there is no marketability for them. In some European countries like Portugal they are considered to be a delicacy and thus, there is a sustaining market for them. Smoked eel is also a delicacy in Poland. Lamprey are also eaten in the countries of Spain, France, South Korea, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic nations. In The U.K. they are usually used as bait for fishing (dead and cut up) and not for consumption.

https://biology.knoji.com/lamprey-eel-a ... ur-waters/


There is probably someone out there who can make it taste good. It undoubtedly has nutritional value and it is not harmful to eat.

I would probably try it. It doesn't look tasty but who knows? With proper spices, etc. If not, then animal feed.

[PluggyRug]

How about Lamprey pie, with a Canadian connection.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -fish.html