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Article: Lamprey Fish Should Be Protected, Suit Urges.

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By Randi Bjornstad, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 28--Cute it's not, but the lamprey -- a jawless fish of ancient origin -- deserves protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, said a dozen West Coast conservation groups in a lawsuit they filed Wednesday.

The lawsuit, in the U.S. District Court in Portland, asks the court to require the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to take legal steps to protect the Pacific, river, western brook and Kern brook species of lamprey.

Lamprey were once common in some slow-moving waterways in the southern Willamette Valley, but now are rare, according to a 2002 ...

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