Pacific Lamprey are a boneless, scale-less fish that existed 250 million years before the first evidence of salmon. As a ceremonial food to most of native american tribes of the Pacific Northwest it has been ceremoniously caught by hand among the waterfalls and rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Scientists and Native Americans are worried about the plummeting numbers of lamprey and are working together to fight for the lamprey. The only place left for harvesting the lamprey is at the Willamette Falls on the Willamette River, outside of Portland, Oregon. These photos were taken for Edible Portland.