The Ludington Biological Station, in partnership with the Marquette Biological Station and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, delivers an integrated program of sea lamprey control to assist in restoration of the Great Lakes fishery. Our work takes us to locations throughout the Great Lakes basin. Together with our partners, we assess larval and adult sea lamprey populations and control sea lampreys with a variety of state of the art techniques. Control techniques include application of lampricides in natal streams and lentic areas to kill larvae, as well as innovative alternative control technologies that limit reproduction such as trapping and use of barriers to limit spawning migrations. We collaborate with internal and external researchers to advance novel technologies for managing invasive species such as sea lamprey pheromones and repellents. We work closely with federal, state, and tribal partners and international organizations. The primary focus of the position is one or more of the following areas: to control sea lamprey populations through the application of lampricide; assess non-target effects of control; assess abundance of adult sea lampreys to measure program success; and to assess presence, distribution and abundance of larval sea lamprey to guide and evaluate control efforts.
