Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Patrick White
Publication Date: December 27, 2024 - 07:00
Canada and the U.S. worked together to stamp out the invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. Then COVID-19 happened
December 27, 2024
The vampire fish started crowding Michael Attard’s nets the year after COVID-19 hit.They had been around for decades, lurking in the deeps, occasionally clinging to one of the many fish he landed as proprietor of Angler’s Edge Fishing Charters. But from 2021 to 2023, the parasitic sea lamprey seemed to be everywhere. Sometimes he’d pull a salmon or trout from Lake Ontario only to find two or three of the bloodsuckers attached to its body.
Unpublished Newswire
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