LM with fresh wound but the same location

[Bergen Angler]

Many of LM I catch lately had similar fresh wound - round shaped - near the tail. What do you make of this? Maybe mating scar? or some sort of disease?

[jimmythegreek]

I think you should send an email to F&G along with the pics and the lake location you r fishing at. To me they look like lamprey wounds, you see the same thing on the salmon and similar species on lake ontario, but I have no idea if they could even live in waters down here. But thats the same type of scar/wound I have seen up there

[Bergen Angler]

What's the email address of NJ F&G? Who do I write to? any specific person?

[FASTEDDIE29]

We have Lamprey in the beautiful Delaware River. I'm not sure where else they can be found in NJ.

[AndyS]

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/contactform.htm

[Eskimo]

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Nice Gloves.

Red, shallow ulcers are a clinical sign of any number of infective agents. For example, Mycobacteriosis can present itself as ulcerative wounds like that.

[Matt A.]

ive seen lamprey in the delaware and in the raritan rivers

[The Birdman]

The last episode of river monsters showed images of fish with the same markings and it was lamprey's.

[jimmythegreek]

Originally Posted by Eskimo

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Red, shallow ulcers are a clinical sign of any number of infective agents. For example, Mycobacteriosis can present itself as ulcerative wounds like that.

Holy scientific vocabulary my friend

[mcfish82]

nice gloves