Further Research and Control of Sea Lampreys of the Great Lakes Area
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 2
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cory Brant
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0472126032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The stuff of nightmares in both their looks and the wounds inflicted on their victims, sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) are perhaps the deadliest invasive species to ever enter the Great Lakes. At the invasion’s apex in the mid-20th century, harvests of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), the lampreys’ preferred host fish in the Great Lakes, plummeted from peak annual catches of 15 million pounds to just a few hundred thousand pounds per year—a drop of 98% in only a few decades. Threatening the complete collapse of the fishery, the sea lamprey invasion triggered an environmental awakening in the region and prompted an international treaty that secured unprecedented cooperation across political boundaries to protect the Great Lakes. Fueled by a pioneering scientific spirit, the war on Great Lakes sea lampreys led to discoveries that are the backbone of the program that eventually brought the creature under control and still protects the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world to this day. Great Lakes Sea Lamprey draws on extensive interviews with individuals who experienced the invasion firsthand as well as a trove of unexplored archival materials to tell the incredible story of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes—what started the invasion, how it was halted, and what this history can teach us about the response to biological invaders in the present and future. Richly illustrated with color and black & white photographs, the book will interest readers concerned with the health of the Great Lakes, the history of the conservation movement, and the ongoing threat of invasive species.
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 3
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dan Egan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0393246442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Author: Cory Brant
Publisher: University of Michigan Regional
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0472131567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A captivating look at an ecological terror and the cooperative effort that brought the Great Lakes back from the brink
Author: Margaret F. Docker
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-03
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9402416846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, published in two volumes, provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter’s “The Biology of Lampreys” published more than 30 years ago. This second volume offers a synthesis of topics related to the lamprey gonad (e.g., lamprey sex ratios, sex determination and sex differentiation, sexual maturation, and sex steroids), the artifical propagation of lampreys, post-metamorphic feeding and the evolution of alternative feeding and migratory types, the history and status of sea lamprey control in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, and an overview of contributions of lamprey developmental studies for understanding vertebrate evolution.