We are upholding our promise to our creator and our first foods,” Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ...

Pacific lamprey are a primitive fish species that lack scales and are some 400 million years old. “We find that people love them or hate them; ...

Pacific lamprey cling to a fish-viewing window at Bonneville Lock & Dam on June 28. This year, adult Pacific lamprey returns are lower than in 2023. So far, fish counters estimate only 22,021 (as ...

She and a colleague from the Yakama Nation’s Pacific Lamprey Project, Noah Sampson, were looking for larval lamprey — a difficult task because the fish can be less than an inch long at this ...

There’s a similar agreement with the oldest inhabitant of the watershed—and one of the oldest creatures in the world—the Pacific lamprey. Or, as most Northwest Natives call them, eels. Lamprey have ...

The Oregon Zoo says it welcomed 25 Pacific lamprey last week. The eerie-looking eels are part of a larger effort to restore ...

Before the 1970s, annual lamprey numbers collected at Bonneville Dam were more than 250,000 fish, according to a report from the Pacific Lamprey Conservation Initiative, which is a collaborative ...

Adult Pacific lamprey. Dave Herasimtschuk / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Pacific lamprey are culturally important to Northwest tribes. In addition, young lamprey help filter river water as ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Zoo has welcomed a new group of Pacific lamprey in an effort to restore the population of one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest species.Although the zoo has had ...

Pacific lamprey captured in the Pacific Northwest by a Native American tribe at the Oregon Zoo in Portland on Feb. 20, 2025. Mark Graves/The Oregonian Lampreys are parasitic fish.

She and a colleague from the Yakama Nation’s Pacific Lamprey Project, Noah Sampson, were looking for larval lamprey — a difficult task because the fish can be less than an inch long at this ...