What a Long, Strange Fish It's Been

NRCM's Allison Wells and her young son happened upon the sea lamprey migration in the Sheepscot River, Coopers Mills, Maine, and captured this video. The sea lamprey is a native, parasitic fish with a strange, disc-like mouth that it uses for feeding on the flesh of other fish. It also uses it to move up rivers from the ocean to spawn. Learn more about the sea lamprey at NRCM's Creature Feature: http://www.nrcm.org/creature_feature.asp (Produced by Allison Wells)

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Pets & Animals

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• sea lamprey
• migration
• fish
• eel
• Sheepscot
• river
• Allison Wells
• nrcm
• Maine
• environment
• ocean