How to Use sea lamprey in a Sentence

sea lamprey

noun
  • Each sea lamprey feeds on about 40 pounds of fish over its lifetime.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • There’s my colleague, latched onto John Thune like a sea lamprey.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 June 2017
  • That the Great Lakes ecosystem even has a future is thanks to sea lamprey control.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Just one sea lamprey can kill 40 pounds of fish per year, per the administration.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • Scientists also are turning to other creative ways to rid the lakes of sea lampreys.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2018
  • These tactics and more are showing promise in adding more layers of protection against sea lampreys.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The average sea lamprey kills up to 40 pounds of fish during its adult, parasitic stage.
    — John Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2019
  • To their surprise, the team found that the sea lamprey core hindbrain circuit is also initiated by retinoic acid.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Each sea lamprey is capable of consuming up to 40 pounds of fish during its parasitic stage.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Then alewives, sea lampreys, Eurasian watermilfoil and others all were introduced into the lake and made their mark.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • After the non-native sea lamprey and alewife flooded into the lake, native lake trout and burbot were decimated.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2022
  • However, it was not believed to be involved in the hindbrains for more primitive species including sea lampreys.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But the history of sea lampreys — in the Great Lakes and in their native ocean habitat — stretches back even further.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Officials say adult sea lamprey die shortly after returning to freshwater to spawn.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • The department says sea lamprey spawn each spring in the main stem of the Connecticut River and in many tributaries.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • Bryan, who was born in Chicago, was familiar with the invasive sea lamprey, an eel-like creature that latches onto fish and drains their blood.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
  • Because of their appetites, the sea lampreys have the capacity to destroy the Great Lakes ecosystem.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But sea lampreys, which live in the northern and western Atlantic Ocean, are among today’s rare, jawless vertebrates.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
  • Lake trout, once devastated by parasitic sea lamprey, have bounced back in recent decades because of lamprey controls and trout restoration efforts.
    — John Flesher, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The Fishery Commission must decide each year where to devote its attention to sea lamprey, Gaden said.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2020
  • While their population has been reduced 90%, the sea lamprey control program costs about $16 million each year.
    — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
  • Nightmare-inducing sea lampreys.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Either way, the enduring mystery of how closely humans and sea lamprey fit on the vertebrate family tree will continue.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The groups say the project will restore 3 miles of a migratory corridor that benefits alewife as well as sea lamprey and American eel.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Just a single sea lamprey kills 40 pounds of fish each year, according to the National Ocean Service.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This collaboration helped bring several fish populations back from the brink after facing near extinction at the hands of sea lampreys.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Their numbers were decimated during the past century after the introduction of the non-native sea lamprey.
    — Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Today, because of ongoing control, sea lampreys kill less than 10 million pounds annually.
    — John Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2019
  • However, a non-native species of sea lamprey is considered an invasive species in Lake Champlain on the state's western border, the post said.
    — Alec Snyder, CNN, 25 June 2020
  • Native to the Atlantic Ocean, the sea lamprey has survived four mass extinctions over 350 million years, Shaw said.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 July 2022

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