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#238202 - 03/23/04 07:03 PM Something We Should Do?
Fishingjunky15 Offline
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Registered: 03/22/03
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Loc: Puyallup, WA
The Canadians have the right idea. In Ontario they are going to round up and kill 6,893 cormorants. These guys' population has also been on the rise around here that past couple years and their favorite food is salmon smolts. Personally I watched 3 cormorants eat twenty salmon/steelhead smolts in just ten minutes. Now imagine how many smolts 10,000 cormorants do?

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#238203 - 03/24/04 02:04 AM Re: Something We Should Do?
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Registered: 06/08/02
Posts: 277
Loc: Post Falls, Idaho
On that subject

Why plant lakes when them dang things just come in and eat them all up anyhow.

I am sure at a local lake they planted around 7,000 fish. What is the cost of that just to feed the wildlife?
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#238204 - 03/24/04 10:04 AM Re: Something We Should Do?
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Registered: 12/19/02
Posts: 274
Loc: Oak Harbor Wa
Now you guys are talking. commorants eat there weight in fish each day. you might pick on off while flying and theres always that chance it well come down on the poacher hiding on the other side of the river...well one can only hope. The great lakes has huge flocks of them they look like a distent black cloud when flying low to the water. Ive seen them sitting up on that old bridge buttment just south of concrete. you know they are not there eating candle fish or herring. The thing I noticed this year is they are not there when the eagles are around....DJ

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#238205 - 03/24/04 10:06 AM Re: Something We Should Do?
DJFISHS2XS Offline
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Registered: 12/19/02
Posts: 274
Loc: Oak Harbor Wa
Now you guys are talking. commorants eat there weight in fish each day. you might pick on off while flying and theres always that chance it well come down on the poacher hiding on the other side of the river...well one can only hope. The great lakes has huge flocks of them they look like a distent black cloud when flying low to the water. Ive seen them sitting up on that old bridge buttment just south of concrete. you know they are not there eating candle fish or herring. The thing I noticed this year is they are not there when the eagles are around....DJ

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#238206 - 03/25/04 02:33 AM Re: Something We Should Do?
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Registered: 05/09/03
Posts: 368
Loc: Florida
Most folks have no idea what damage they can do. I managed a large ranch in N California and had a 100 acre lake with planted Kamloops rainbow. Now I never mind sharing with wildlife, but one day these 4 cormorants showed up. I didnt mind and they were kinda fun to watch.... Then within 2 weeks I could not catch a trout and saw next to none jumping like I usually did in the evening. I suspected the cormorants and took to firing at them to try to scare them away. They would just take off to the other side of the lake.... Then one day I saw them going on dive after dive and I had had enough. I got out the shotgun and snuck to the side of the lake they were on. First shot took one on the water and another took to the air and cirlced around me coming right over me. I fired and down it came. When it hit the ground I was stunned to see 2 12-14 inch trout come out of its gut.... Curious, I fished the other out and cut it open as it was obviously stuffed. 6 trout ranging from an 8 incher to a 13 1/2 incher in its gut. I had no idea they could eat that much. The other two got the picture and left, and never returned. If they can eat that many long, fat Kamloops trout, then how many 3-6 inch smolts can they eat at a sitting. They need to start controlling them as part of the salmon recovery.....

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#238207 - 03/25/04 10:15 AM Re: Something We Should Do?
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Registered: 12/19/02
Posts: 274
Loc: Oak Harbor Wa
I didnt even realise I felt so strongly I had to say it twice

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