Go get em Uncle Sam

[ivanputski]

My fathers blood boils when he sees a cormorant.
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[FishermanTim]

Originally Posted by ivanputski

My fathers blood boils when he sees a cormorant.
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Mine used to when they started their trout rampages in the late 80's and into the 90's, and then when I thought about why they had moved inland, it made me a little more understanding of the flexability of a bird that was able to change its feeding behavior from a ocean-based to an inland-based environment.

Oh, don't get me wrong...they still suck eggs big time, but they have proven that they can take a lickin' and keep on pickin'!!!

(There's been comorant culls done before, and with modeate to little success in controling their numbers. You knock down the numbers at one rookery and they will move in from another to take over.)

Why can't they do something about the damn geese populations?
Sure, comorants eat fish and have an effect on the fish populations, but geese have a larger effect on the entire ecosystem, both on land and in the water!

Let me know when they have a goose culling drive, and I'll help bag what's left after they've been blasted!

[Liv2Fish]

I bet they eat more than that. Back when I used to drift chunks in the canal, I had a cormorant the would not leave my bait alone. I fed the thing 10 mackerel heads and it was still trying to get every cast. I had to throw rocks at it to get it to move on but it was too full to fly and basically swam off in a hurry.

[piemma]

Back when there was a good buckeye run at Nonquit in Tiverton, the dam at Nonquit Pond would be covered along with the pond and the stream. Just 1000s of cormorants.