{"id":342,"date":"2009-03-15T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/?p=342"},"modified":"2009-03-15T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T22:18:13","slug":"fighting-invasive-lamprey-in-great-lakes-make-love-not-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2009\/03\/15\/fighting-invasive-lamprey-in-great-lakes-make-love-not-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Invasive Lamprey in Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Public Radio<\/em> describes a possible new solution for the lamprey problem, gratuitously invoking vampirism and sex to tell the story:<\/p>\n<p>A team at Michigan State University has discovered how to create sort of a &#8220;Love Potion No. 9&#8221; to attract an invasive species of fish out of the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from the Atlantic, the lamprey is usually considered a parasite. But in the Great Lakes it has achieved the status of predator. Researcher Nicholas Johnson says the fish is killing off other large predator species and has &#8220;completely changed the ecosystem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lampreys use their suction-cup-like mouths to attach to other fish and feed off their blood. Their prey is often left for dead, giving the lamprey the moniker &#8220;the vampire fish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spends $20 million annually to control the jawless fish. Now they may have a new weapon to combat the invasion \u2014 lamprey perfume.<\/p>\n<p>The substance is created from the pheromones the male lamprey releases to attract females during mating season. Johnson and his team are using it to redirect the females into traps.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=101892336<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio describes a possible new solution for the lamprey problem, gratuitously invoking vampirism and sex to tell the story: A team at Michigan State University has discovered how to create sort of a &#8220;Love Potion No. 9&#8221; to attract an invasive species of fish out of the Great Lakes. Originally from the Atlantic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-lakes","category-law-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}