This presents the possibility of a whole new environmentally safe tool for controlling sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. -Peter Sorensen

 

This presents the possibility of a whole new environmentally safe tool for controlling sea lamprey in the Great Lakes.


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Removing one female lamprey isn't always a terribly valuable exercise. But to prevent a group from spawning, there is enormous payoff there.

Peter Sorensen

And this led to an observation decades ago -- which was key -- that adult lamprey must be selective in how they pick streams, ... They only pick a few, and if you remove the larvae they don't seem to go in there.

Peter Sorensen

The GLFC has the goal of controlling lamprey with a new and better technique by 2010. This could be it. Also, lamprey are important to native peoples on the West Coast, who value it for food. This pheromone could help restore lamprey runs by attracting lamprey to suitable spawning beds.

Peter Sorensen

To mate with females who would waste their reproductive potential.

Peter Sorensen

Using these extracts has been shown to work.

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