{"id":8444,"date":"2021-04-08T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:46:19","slug":"episode-305-sea-lampreys-life-and-death-in-the-greatest-fishbowl-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8444","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 305: SEA LAMPREYS: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE GREATEST FISHBOWL ON EARTH"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE  305   SEA LAMPREYS, :  CONTRIBUTE TO THE GREAT LAKES DISASTER<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
April 2021<\/div>\n

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( series titled LIFE  AND DEATH IN THE GREATEST FISH BOWL ON EARTH: THE GREAT LAKES)<\/div>\n

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 Sea Lampreys<\/div>\n

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The first sea Lamprey was found in Lake Ontario in 1835 perhaps  using the new Erie Canal as an access route.<\/div>\n
It is suspected that these early sea Lampreys took a short cut north to Lake Ontario first and much later<\/div>\n
used the Welland Canal  to get access to the upper Great Lakes.  <\/div>\n

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 There are four kinds of lampreys but<\/div>\n
the sea lamprey was the most  threatening to the Great Lakes fishery because it adapted to fresh water life. And<\/div>\n
 found the lake trout easy prey\u2026.Slow moving deep  down in Lake Ontario…Fat. Lots of blood…<\/div>\n
Easy to grab..  Just swim up beside then use the barbs on their velcro like mouths to hook<\/div>\n
a lake trout anywhere and begin sucking the life blood out of them.   One sea lamprey can eat forty pounds<\/div>\n
of fish (not just lake trout) <\/div>\n

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Since the sea lamprey found life in the Great Lakes abundant with easy prey it did not return to the Atlantic <\/div>\n
ocean as the creature may have planned when it first gained  access.  The  clean, clear, fast flowing rivers<\/div>\n
 were ideal  for sea lamprey spawning.   One female sea lamprey produces<\/div>\n
up to 100,000 baby lampreys.   It did not take long for the sea lampreys population to overwhelm<\/div>\n
the natural fish cycles in the Great Lakes.  By 1960 the top predator, the Lake Trout, that served<\/div>\n
the function of keeping the fish population in balance was nearly extinct. <\/div>\n

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