[ODFW-News] Meeting to discuss Miller Lake lamprey

[Odfw News]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, April 20, 2005

 
Meeting to discuss Miller Lake lamprey

KLAMATH FALLS - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials today
announced an April 26 meeting at the Oregon Institute of Technology to
review a draft conservation plan developed for the Miller Lake lamprey
 
The meeting, 7-9 p.m. in the Mount Thielsen Room, is an opportunity for
the public to review ODFW plans and offer comments. With the
identification of the Miller Lake Lamprey, changes in fish management
will be implemented in 2005. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
officials will present proposed changes fish management in Miller Lake
and Miller Creek and to gather public input related to these changes.
 
Long thought to be extinct after chemical treatments to target lamprey
and Tui chub were applied to Miller Lake in 1958, the Miller Lake
lamprey is recognized today as a distinct species. They are the smallest
predatory lamprey species in the world, achieving an average maximum
length of about 15 centimeters. Field investigation since 1992 has
identified six local populations of Miller Lake lamprey in two small
sub-drainages of the Klamath Basin. 
 
Actions proposed to preserve this species include habitat conservation,
addressing non-native predator impacts, and establishing connectivity
between local populations. It also is proposed that a man-made barrier,
constructed in 1959 as part of the chemical treatment, be removed to
allow local lamprey populations to disperse naturally.
 
A copy of the draft conservation plan is available on the ODFW Web site
at http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/lamprey_plan.pdf
<http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/lamprey_plan.pdf> .
 
Comments may be submitted in writing to: Roger Smith, Klamath Watershed
District Fish Biologist, 1850 Miller Island Road West, Klamath Falls, OR
97603 or by fax to (541) 883-5521. Comments also may be submitted via
e-mail to: roger.c.smith at state.or.us <mailto:roger.c.smith at state.or.us>

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