MARQUETTE, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The battle to protect the Great Lakes against sea lamprey continues as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepares for another round of destroying their larvae.
Lampricides will be distributed to the Cranberry and Flintsteel Rivers; both flow into Lake Superior. The goal is to kill sea lamprey larvae that burrow into stream bottoms.
Officials say in 2003, The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted studies that revealed lampricides pose no unreasonable risk to the general population and the environment when applied at concentrations necessary to control sea lamprey larvae.