BALDWIN: It is that time of year, the attack on the vampire fish. Not talking about some horror flick sequel here, I'm talking about this guy, with these predatory teeth. This is the Great Lakes area. So as Alexandra is about to explain. As early as tomorrow, a team from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin this attack. They're called lamprey. Tell me --</s>ALEXANDRA STEELE, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Sea lamprey or "vampire fish" and their mouth essentially -- you're looking at them, but I'm going to suck your blood right now, Brooke, and what it is, its mouth is this disc-like object with teeth. It gets into a local fish, sucks all their insides out, essentially killing them or certainly maiming them. So what they want to do is save the local fish and they have been doing this here in the Great Lakes for a long time. You're looking at it. It is just a sucker of a fish. It is killing all the locals and it has been doing it since the '40s.</s>BALDWIN: So what they're going to this creek near the big lake, you can't kill the actual thing --</s>STEELE: Right. Look at this thing. They're going to Mitchell Creek, which feeds Lake Michigan, and that's where the larva are. Every three to five years they go in. They have been doing it, spends about $400 million killing the larva. You can't kill the adult ones. Every three to five years and essentially it is working, getting rid of 90 percent of them. It got -- it is from the Atlantic Ocean, but it got here from shipping canals. That's how it got to the Great Lakes, but they're going to get rid of them.</s>BALDWIN: You're an encyclopedia of vampire fish.</s>STEELE: This is its little mouth, big mouth.</s>BALDWIN: Thank you. Now this.
Attack On The "Vampire Fish"