PAW PAW, Mich. — Since the 1950s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (UFWS) has been taking steps to control the invasive sea lamprey population and their threat to the Great Lakes–including here in Southwest Michigan.
Beginning Tuesday, the agency will be kicking off their ten-day control efforts, treating sections of the Paw Paw River in Berrien and Van Buren Counties.
“Sea lamprey control is essential,” Lo Freitas, UFWS lampricide treatment supervisor, said. “They do quite a number on the fishery. So, they’re very voracious predators.”…