New species discovered in Lake Erie

Oct 28, 2011

A federal biologist found a new species in Lake Erie in September, a tiny but prolific parasite that can attach to and feed on a number of different sport fish, including perch. It is too early to know what effect, if any, the animal, a copepod - a crustacean known as Neoergasilus japonicus - will have on the lake. Researchers have seen little damage in Saginaw Bay, a part of Lake Huron, where the copepods were found in 1994. More: Robb Frederick Erie Times-News