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Death Flarrant Sworn Out
r Great Lakes Dracuia
By ROGER I. GItfcKNE
AP Newsfeaiurcs Writer
WASHINGTON tfl American
and Canadian scientists are experi
menting witii a weiri arsenal o
weapons, ranging from electric
fences to sonic-wave "death rays,"
in an attempt to trap and destroy
a vicious killer.
The target is the sea lamprey,
an ell-Uke vampire known as "The
Dracuia of the Great Lakes,"
whose bJoodthirsty depredations
have virtually wrecked the multimillion-dollar
fishing industry in
the chain of lakes along the U.S.
Canadian border.
Now, under a treaty approved by
Congress and the Canadian Parlia
ment, marine experts of both coun
tries have sworn out a death war
rant for the marauder.
The. 10-year treaty, ratified by
the Senate in June, set up a joint
U.S Canadian commission and
armed with an initial appropriation
of $350,000.
Sen. Potter i R Mich i , who
quarterbacked the congrespionnl
fund-raising drive, told a reporter:
"We hope to begin the bit; crack
down next spring. I'm going to be
on the commission's neck unless
A they act fast on this thing."
It is- not a new problem. The
I accompanying map shows the lamp
1 rey's destructive history in the
f Great Lakes, how they entered via
1 the St. Lawrence and moved ever
westward, laying waste to both
commercial and sport fiphintr in
one lake slier another. The lo.ss in
lake trout alone is estimated at
five million dollars a year.
Today the lampreys are starting
to invade Lake Superior. Some fish
ermen are already quitting, rmd
the once-flourishing fisheries there
mav be doomed,
CREATURE
A strange Jekyll-Hyde like crea
ture, the sea lamprey is a stud;.'
in paradoxes.
It looks like an eel, but Is not
even related.
Its white, tasty flesh made It a
popular food in Europe during the
Middle Aces until it was found
to be dangerously indigestible. Em
peror Vitellius of Rome, who spent
35 million dollars on feasting dur
ing the few month of his reign,
fte himself to death on a banquet
of lampreys in 69 A.D.
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Its name is a misnomer. The
sea lampreys of the Great Lakes
never go to ssa. They live, spawn
and die in the lake region.
For the first four years of its
seven-year life cycle, the lamprey
is weak, blind, toothless and harm
less, a tiny hermit hiding in an
upv.ream mud burrow.
Then, in ihe fifth year, an evil
metamorphosis takes place. The
lamprey grows rapidly, attaining
a length of IS to 24 inches. It
develops ugly staring eyes, a round
suction-disk mouth with concentric
rows of razor-sharp teeth, and a
rasping lile-Hke tongue.
DOWNSTREAM
Armed with this lethal equip
ment, the lamprey swims down
stream from spawning ground to
lake and there begins its final 13
month career as a ferocious vam
nire. attacking lake trout, white-
fish, pickerel, sturgeon and other
valuable game fish.
For fomc reason, the victims
never take alarm at the approach
of the killer. Unsuspected, the
lamprey suddenly strikes. Then it's
tco late to escape. The most vio
lent thrashing fails to throw off
Ihe deadly parasite, which rasps
p hole into the side of the victim
and sucks its blood and body
juices until ihe fish is dead or
the lamprey satiated. The stone
may last a few days to several
weeks.
Scientists say the lamprey has
no natural enemies or diseases to
keep it in check. But fortunately
the lamprey has one weakness. To
ward the end of its life, it has
to (?o upstream to spawn or die
without spawning a new genera
tion. Thus 3f the rsady-to-spawn lamp
reys ran be prevented from enter
ing the hundreds of tribtu ary
streams flowing into the Great
Lakes, scientists say the scaven
gers can at least be brought under
control, if not exterminated.
American and Canadian authori
ties have already erected more
than 70 electrical barriers in
streams on the U.S. side of the
Great Lakes and about 3f! on the
Canadian side. About 160 more will
be strung along the U.S. side.
Experiments have also been con
ducted with mechanical traps.
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weirs and dam, but all have been
found loo expensive.
The electric fences are a rela
tively cheap and simple device,
using regular 110-volt alternating
cuirent for the main "death trap"
barrier. Slightly downstream, a
weak 55-voit field serves as a
non-lethal warning to valuable
game lish such as trout and pick
erai, which turn back when the
first mild shock tingles their nose.
Less sensitive to electricity than I
fish, the lampreys swim on through '
the warning zone until they reach
the hich-voltage field which kills ;
them.
Three rows of aluminum elect- ,
rodes, spaced 3!j fees between;
rows and 4 feet between electrodes, :
do the trick, the electrodes are
anchored to the stream bed held by
4-foot steel pins driven into the
bottom.
Fish and Wildlife experts say
that in one test not a single lamp
rey escaped after entering the
electric "death" zone.
But even after every spawning
stream is blocked by electric bar
riers and there are at least
23Q streams on the U.S. side alone
it will still take five or six
years to "control" the lamprey
menace. This is because there are
five generations of lampreys, - in
various stag?s of development, now
growing in the streams. Each year
a new generation matures and
heads for the lakes, but by some
quirk of nature the youns lake
bound lampreys are immune to
electricity.
As a result, the barrierswill kill
each succeeding generation only
after they have completed their
18-month "Dracuia" cycle in the
lakes and try to return upstream
to spawn. Lampreys "spawn once,
then die.
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Hq matter who wins the pennant,
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The four contenders, one of
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have been tagged with a sucker
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Seventh-pl3ce Washington and
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a 7-4 triumph over Baltimore but
had the help of eight walks thai
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Ted Williams, whose double
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