Rare metre-long ‘vampire fish’ spotted at Diglis Fish Pass

Rare metre-long ‘vampire fish’ spotted at Diglis Fish Pass

Source: worcesternews

4/13/2022

This is the moment a rare sea lamprey was spotted swimming through a Worcester fish pass for the first time this year.

The eel-like creature, which is over a metre in length, was spotted at the Diglis Fish Pass on Tuesday night (April 11).

Sea lampreys, which are also known as vampire fish, are parasitic animals that attach themselves to the skin of a fish to feed on its blood.

They have long eel-like bodies and round, sucker-like mouths with circular rows of sharp teeth.

Lampreys live in seas and lakes but migrate up rivers to spawn, something many fish have struggled to do in the River Severn because of navigation weirs installed in Victorian times.

This is exactly why the Diglis Fish Pass was built.

Salmon, Atlantic

Continue...

News Id		Source	Stamp	country
3351	It’s no fish tale: Sausalito charter fishing captain to retire after 50 years	Marin Independent Journal	2021-12-18	US
3352	Avid angler makes bamboo fishing rods	gillettenewsrecord	2021-12-19	US
3353	Maine fishermen want you to eat more monkfish, even if the fish are hideous	bangor daily news	2021-12-20	US
3354	‘Rare find.’ A second terrifying deep-sea fish washes up on California beach	sacbee	2021-12-15	US
3355	Robotic fish scares invasive species so badly that it cannot breed	newscientist	2021-12-16	US
3356	Ocean acidification disrupts the behavior of fish shoals	Earth.com	2021-12-17	US
3357	State of Hawaiʻi Seeking Public Input on Proposed Fishing Rules for Reef Fish	Maui News	2021-12-07	US
3358	Decapitated shark head dumped on car as bitter fishing contest turns violent	mirror	2021-12-09	UK
3359	Rare video of a strange fish with a see-through head has been captured by researchers	ceng news	2021-12-09	US
3360	8-year-old lands hefty white sturgeon on Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta	opb	2021-12-06	US
3361	Good Samaritans rescue Ocean Sunfish stranded in Neuse River	wcti12	2021-12-07	US
3362	Enormous fish 'like half a mutilated shark' could beat world record with giant size	mirror	2021-12-09	UK
3363	Columbia Riverkeeper sues Army Corps, says hot water discharge from dams kills fish	Tri-City Herald	2021-12-09	US
3364	In southern Colombia, Indigenous groups fish and farm with the floods	mongabay	2021-12-08	CO
3365	After 50 years, Sarasota's Fish Whisperer Jonnie Walker hanging up his rod	Sarasota Herald-Tribune	2021-12-07	US
3366	Fishermen say offshore wind surveys rip up gear: ‘There has to be accountability’	nationalfisherman	2021-12-07	US
3367	Farmed seafood supply at risk if climate change goes unaddressed, study predicts	upi	2021-12-13	CA
3368	Fisheries and Oceans Canada lays 66 halibut fishing charges in Nova Scotia	thecanadanow	2021-12-14	CA
3369	Strange Fish Songs Reveal That Indonesia's Coral Reefs Are Rapidly Recovering	natureworldnews	2021-12-08	ID
3370	Feared extinct for nearly half a century, Batman River fish rediscovered in Turkey	washingtonpost	2021-12-09	TR
3371	Разрешения на вылов рыбы хотят выдавать в электронном виде	Рыболовство.	2021-12-10	RU
3372	На острове Итуруп открыли новый рыбный завод	Рыболовство.	2021-12-17	RU
3373	Водоемы с ценными видами рыб станут заповедными зонами	Рыболовство.	2021-12-16	RU
3374	Disappearing Lake Tuz	nasa	2021-12-16	TR
3375	Shrinking blackfish population near Killarney the 'canary in the coal mine'	ABC Southern Qld	2021-11-28	AU

134 of [136 - pages.]