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By Charlie Spiering
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When the young Arlo Mason told his dad about the fish he found by the Thornton River, Ben Mason was initially curious.
When his 7-year-old led him to the two-foot long dead corpse he was horrified. “It was one of the ugliest creatures that I have ever seen,” he said about the long snake shaped water creature. “It had these big ugly suckers...it looked like something out of the movie Alien.” Mason also found one cut in half.
Rappahannock angler Timothy Lacy found a similar fish in the county and reported it to the Rappahannock County Sheriff's office leading to further investigation.
As he perused the Internet, Mason believed that they were Mountain Brook Lampreys, a parasitic fish that lived in fresh waters. He was not far off.
John Odenkirk, a marine biologist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries recently stated that the fish were in fact Sea Lampreys.
Odenkirk stated that Sea Lamprey live in salt water and spawn in fresh water and usually swim into fresh water to spawn their offspring. The Sea Lamprey attaches itself to another fish, sucking the blood and other bodily fluids out of the host.
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