Fish
Brook Lamprey
C tier
Brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri) is a small, non-parasitic freshwater lamprey that spends adult life without feeding—it is not a practical food fish. Mentioned in species lists for completeness, it lacks the size and culinary tradition of sea or river lamprey. Do not harvest brook lamprey for the table; they are ecologically interesting but culinarily irrelevant and often protected. Cooks seeking lamprey flavour should use legally sourced sea or river lamprey from food fisheries only.
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History
Naturalists distinguished non-parasitic brook lamprey from edible migratory lampreys.
Conservation biology focused on brook lamprey as a stream-quality indicator species.
Food catalogs list brook lamprey only to separate it from true culinary lampreys.