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Post #814813 by MadDogMike on 01/24/2025

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MadDogMike posted on 01/24/2025

Every Sea Lamprey’s Greatest Fear

  • Just this past November, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission declared that the trout population in Lake Superior has been “fully restored.”
  • Before scientist Vernon C. Applegate developed a method to destroy them, sea lampreys were killing more than 100 million pounds of Great Lakes fish every year. Now they kill less than 10 million.
  • An invasive species, sea lampreys were well on their way to destroying the Great Lakes in the 1940s and 1950s by killing all our game fish.
  • Vernon C. Applegate deserves renown as the man who saved the Great Lakes.