Lots Of Lampreys On Fishcam

[craigdritchie]

Clicked on the ARL Fishcam for a minute (click here) and lots of lampreys eating the Atlantics this afternoon.

 

Here's a nice swimming vampire in action:

 

And another:

 

Here we go with a daily double - two Atlantics, two lampreys

 

Nice.

Edited June 25, 2010 by Craig_Ritchie

[Guest ThisPlaceSucks]

st. mary's river is THE lamprey hot spot on the great lakes. i will be spending the month of july conducting a joint treatment of the river with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

[craigdritchie]

Take no prisoners, Doc!

 

More vulgarity

 

Another double - fish in the left background also has a lamprey sucking on it

 

No critter here, but what an ugly scar left behind on an otherwise pretty fishie. Too bad.

 

I hate those things.

[Grimace]

Give them hell Doc.

[CLofchik]

Did Ontario/MNR/Feds seriously cut back lamprey treatments in the last 5-10 years, or are the eels benefitting from mussel cleaned water? On Lake O there's been a huge lamprey increase, Chinooks are 50/50 for scars, trout are close to that and even carp are coming up with scars & eels on them which I've never ever seen before.

 

Not good.

[Guest ThisPlaceSucks]

i'll dig something up.

Edited June 26, 2010 by Dr. Salvelinus

[Guest ThisPlaceSucks]

http://www.glfc.org/sealamp/catchdb/status.php

 

Click on "ONTARIO" to see the status of sea lamprey in lake ontario. it discusses spawning phase abundance and lake trout wounding rates.

[a.cortellessa]

dam lampreys...