A Pacific lamprey

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John Heil/USFWS

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Service biologist Damon Goodman holds a Pacific lamprey at the Van Arsdale Fisheries Station in Potter Valley, California.鈥淚t was a really cool feeling seeing the first one pop out of the top (of the migration tube). There were high-fives all-around. We figured if they are using their suctorial disks to climb up, why couldn鈥檛 they climb up a tube,鈥� he said. Credit: John Heil/USFWS