Re: PESO: European brook lamprey

> On Mar 19, 2023, at 4:59 AM, Alan C wrote: > > I did some research. Lampreys have a very unusual lifecycle - egg, larva, > adult & then die immediately after procreating for the first time. The big > difference between the species is the larval stage which can last from 2 to > 10 years.

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

GREAT PHONE IMAGE! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:37 PM John Francis wrote: > > > On Fridy my wife and I drove up to Berkeley to catch a > St. Patrick's Day gig at the Freight & Salvage (a music >

Re: PESO: European brook lamprey

Fields of brook lampreys. That must have been a sight. I never saw them and the 20 or so lampreys in the counting tank were catched by fishermen with some kind of electric stunning device to catch all the fish. Sad to realize what has gone in a few decades. On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 11:16, mike

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

A nice pic! Paul > On Mar 19, 2023, at 10:37 PM, John Francis wrote: > >  > > On Fridy my wife and I drove up to Berkeley to catch a > St. Patrick's Day gig at the Freight & Salvage (a music > venue). Getting there was a nightmare - instead of the > hour and a quarter that Google Maps was

Re: PESO: European brook lamprey

Lampreys are fascinating organisms. Apart from being (afaik) the only four-eyed vertebrate, their body chemistry provides rich hunting grounds for pharmaceutics. Some are anadromous, some are not; some have a parasitic phase of their life cycle, some do not. As a child, I remember seeing