Government to take out 'vampire fish'

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/06/03/nr-vo-vampire-fish-attack.cnn.html

Oh CNN... the things you will do to grab viewer's attention.  I've never heard lamprey being called "vampire fish".  Lamprey invaded the rest of the Great Lakes from Lake Ontario years ago when the US and Canada made a shipping channel around Niagara Falls.   

Up in on here in Oregon, lamprey are actually in trouble and they are taking measures to protect them.

At least it wasn't the Mermaid "documentary" that aired on Animal Planet.

They make great bait! 

They make great bait!

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It's getting hard to find tho. And if you do it's $$$$

Saw this post and it reminded me of the River Monsters episode when they were grabbing them by hand in the waterfall.

Don't know if I would go the lengths that JW did to demonstrate the "vampire fish" though.

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/river-monsters/videos/a-kiss-of-death-lamprey-sucks-jeremys-blood.htm

Saw this post and it reminded me of the River Monsters episode when they were grabbing them by hand in the waterfall.

Don't know if I would go the lengths that JW did to demonstrate the "vampire fish" though.

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/river-monsters/videos/a-kiss-of-death-lamprey-sucks-jeremys-blood.htm

Crazy sh.t!!!!

Pacific Lampreys are tasty. My Farther-in-Law has cooked them for us before using planks. He uses some herbs/plants grown naturally around the Yurok Reservation kinda like seasoning them.

Anyways a little info from:

http://calfish.ucdavis.edu/species/?uid=61&ds=241

1st picture:



Pacific lamprey, captured in rotary screw trap on Sacramento River at Knight's Landing. Photo by Dan Worth, California Department of Fish and Game.

2nd picture:



Pacific lamprey (mouth), captured in rotary screw trap on Sacramento River at Knight's Landing. Photo by Robert Vincik, California Department of Fish and Game.

3rd picture:



Pacific lamprey juvenile (albino), captured in rotary screw trap on Sacramento River at Knight's Landing. Photo by Robert Vincik, California Department of Fish and Game.


California watershed

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