Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a description of fossilized lamprey larvae that date back to the Lower Cretaceous — at least 125 million years ago. They’re the oldest […]
NIWA and Auckland Council freshwater scientists have developed a pheromone sampler that detects the presence of lamprey in freshwater, an important taonga species for Māori but now believed to be in […]
The River Bandon rises in the Shehy Mountains in west Co Cork, and then flows through Dunmanway, Bandon, and Innishannon before entering the sea at Kinsale Harbour. During the record rainfall and subsequent […]
This post provides links to videos we posted to our YouTube channel this year of migratory lampreys spawning in the Lower River Shannon Special Area of Conservation. These are some […]
Inland Fisheries Ireland’s talk delivered at #fishpassage2015 was entitled “Dodgy barriers: conservation implications and mitigations for sea lamprey in Irish SAC’s“. This should have been entitled “Ireland’s dodgy sea lamprey […]
We are currently undertaking a survey of lamprey populations in the Lower River Shannon Special Area of Conservation, and the sea lamprey spawning season is now under way. We recorded […]
