The subcommittee's funding recommendation must be approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee, the full Senate and a House-Senate conference committee.
Sea lampreys run up rivers to spawn, much like salmon.
The male and female usually form a monogamous pair that mate, lay and fertilize the eggs and then die. The juvenile lampreys burrow into the muck of the river bottom after hatching and live there for about seven years before migrating downriver and spending a year as parasitic predators on fish. GLFC Ironically, it turned out lampreys were as sensitive to pollution as trout, and as people cleaned up rivers around the Great Lakes they gave the lampreys new spawning grounds. The biggest was the St. Marys, which connects lakes Superior and Huron. The budget recommendation is likely to be approved because it is the same amount recommended by a House subcommittee and by the president's proposed 1998 budget, according to Marc Gaden, communications officer for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.