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Vampire-like eels pose threat to Great Lakes fish


Environmental | 207191 hits | Mar 03 12:02 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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After years of consistently low numbers, the invasive parasite known as the lamprey eel is on the rise once again in Lake Superior — and action needs to be taken, an expert says.

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  1. by avatar uwish
    Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:31 pm
    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.

  2. by avatar fifeboy
    Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:33 pm
    Not---eel, Agnatha

  3. by avatar fifeboy
    Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:40 pm
    Not---eel, Agnatha!

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

  4. by avatar PluggyRug
    Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:55 pm
    Caught many of those in the river Dee in Wales. Usually in the tidal areas.

  5. by avatar Hyack
    Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:53 pm
    "PluggyRug" said
    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.....???

  6. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:23 am
    "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. :rock:

  7. by avatar PluggyRug
    Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:24 am
    "Hyack" said
    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. :mrgreen:

  8. by avatar Delwin
    Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:28 am
    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.

  9. by avatar PluggyRug
    Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:37 am
    How about Lamprey pie, with a Canadian connection.

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



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