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I went to check out the Herring at the Weymouth Run on Saturday, I climbed up the stone wall to the top of the ladder to check out the exit and see if any herring were coming through. Up there to greet me were about 100 cormorants. It seems like they would wipe out the entire spawning area because you know they arent going anywhere when there is a food supply. I see them diving for baby flounder under the summer st. bridge in boston all season long too. Makes me want to buy a good pellet rifle.
The cormorants are only slightly less of a nuisance than the canadian geese. The don't deserve the hatred that they get from me (because of their stocked trout eating ability) due to the fact that their move to inland waters was created by man's overfishing of the groundfish and baitfish they relied on for food (back in the 80's) so they just found another food source that just happened to be supplied each and every year: stocked trout.
Sure, they do eat other fish species, but they show up just in time for the stocked fish. Funny how animals can plan their migrations and arrivals based on calendar events?[/QUOTE]
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