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Here's something to consider:
If cormorants (and maybe even canadian geese too) are protected under a "migratory bird treaty", what if these F#*&ing birds DON'T migrate like they used to?
I hav witnessed a similar scenario at Jamaica Pond over the past 10-15 years.
The birds "migrated" inland when the saltwater fishing declined in the 70's & 80's and they now consider these inland waters their natural habitat.
These birds don't migrate, and their young don't leave, and their young's young etc...
This holds true for canadian geese as well.
There was a time when I was a young lad fishing this particular pond, when you NEVER saw canadian gese or cormorants there.
Now, there could be over 100 geese, and who knows how many cormorants.
What really ticks me off is that the Mass Wildlife folks don't see what this does to the waterways.
For example, having fished at a number of ponds in the general boston area, I have noticed a DIRECT link between the disappearance of water foliage and the increase of geese.
If your going to start culling the cormorants, take twice as many geese as well.
(I don't hate the birds, but the situations ar as bad as they are because NOBODY wanted to take steps to prevent this from happening, or they powers that be just didn't care enough until it became an issue.)
Just my $0.02 worth.
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