Federal Firings Threaten Great Lakes’ $5 Billion Fishery

Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could unintentionally thwart efforts to control populations of the destructive sea lamprey.

By Anika Jane Beamer
March 24, 2025
A. Miehls/Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Anika Jane Beamer

Anika Jane Beamer is an Outrider fellow at Inside Climate News and a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 
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