It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, new issues emerged around wildlife.

Mark Gaden of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and journalist Katie Thornton join Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss threats to a sea lamprey management program. For more than a century, an ...

Ally Porter walked ahead of me as we sidestepped down a steep, loamy embankment. Our path lit only by headlamps, a waning sliver of moon, and what seemed to be thousands of stars, we made our way to a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Ever wonder what you get when you cross a Labubu with a lamprey? You get an abomination. But ... it's kind of cute. And we kind of want one. When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission exhibit tent at the Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club Walleye Derby last weekend featured a live demonstration with sea lampreys. Photo courtesy of Forrest ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The dams in downtown Grand Rapids play defense, stopping the invasive sea lamprey from slithering further up the Grand River to spawn. Soon enough, though, the dams will be ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Zoo has welcomed a new group of Pacific lamprey in an effort to restore the population of one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest species. Although the zoo has had ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A 400-million-year-old native species has arrived at the Oregon Zoo as part of an effort to restore the ancient fish’s population. The zoo says 25 Pacific lamprey from ...

For 25 years I was a fisheries biologist at the DNR’s Lake Huron Research Station in Alpena. One of our many projects was netting lake trout to assess their health each year. To see the fish coming ...

Traverse City area schools face off in Veterans Cup hockey game TRAVERSE CITY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - Traverse City Central and the Bay Area Reps will compete in the 12th annual Veterans Cup Saturday, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. – The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is reminding anglers and the public to avoid disturbing spawning sea lamprey that may currently be found in the Connecticut River and ...