Cormorants

[JIMMY L]

Does anyone know if N.J. and N.Y. have any plans at all to deal with these birds? My home lake Woodcliff Lake now has over a dozen cormorants feeding like wolfpacks on our trout.Any inquiries i've made to F&W has been met with the same stock answer.(Cormorants are federally protected or we 're looking into it.) Maybe we have to get together on this with letter writing campaigns or phone calls to our elected officials. With all the problems in the world today this may seem trivial to some but hey,we pay for these trout to catch and eat or release not to feed these "devil birds" as i call them. Any ideas or info on this problem is appreciated. Thanks for listening,Jim

[bunker dunker]

play cowboys and cormorants.

[Offshoreafflicted]

You beat me to it Bunker Dunker! I was thinking the same thing, go all vigilante on them devil birds!

[jmurr711]

Philly Pheasant!

[Perfect Drift]

Counted 25 at Indian Lake on Tuesday. Saw at least 50 trout eaten in three hours.
We feed the birds....they multiply because of the good nutrition....make babies....and eat more trout.
Never saw these birds 20 years ago. We must be doing a good job if your a commorant.

[Detour66]

These birds migrate from south america and are eating a good % of our trout and other fish. They also love to eat saltwater fish. The fall stocking is all but wiped out due to these devil birds.The state is basiclly throwing $$$ out the window and they just dont care! Its a big problem and I know how I would solve it....but I won't say!!

[Capt Joe]

Invasive species - DESTROY!!!!!

[SplitShot]

Every time I've been fishing Spring Lake in the last 2 weeks, I've seen comorants coming up in the middle of the lake and sucking down whole squirming trout down their throats..... I've never seen it like this in all these other years.... They're outfishing the heck out of me!!!! :(

[Jerseydix]

I saw this very same thing happening at a local stocked lake. A pack of about 15 would gorge themselves near the dam/ladder then swim off to mid lake I guess to digest, then repeat it all over. They were coming up with some decent sized fish too, Them ugly bastages are very efficient at what they do! :mad:

[Flemington_Fisher]

We need an open, no-bag limit season on these birds, along with the damned Canadian Geese. I'd love to take the 12 gauge and pick off these birds in between casts.

The state should give a box of shells for every 25 birds you bring in. Use the meat to feed the homeless.

[dboyd101]

You could make a bunch of these and sell them at Lord & Taylor:

Cormorant coat http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Cormorant_skin_Pelerine.jpg

[Ely]

These birds are just awful. I own a sailboat and 1 day i noticed they moved into the harbor where i moor my boat. Within weeks they invited their friends and they would sit way up in the mast. Judging by the amount of waste that collected on the boat below, these fish are prolific eaters. Finally, the harbor enforced a war on birds and all boats were required to take preventative measures likes putting bird spikes up on the spreaders and top of the mast or use these wind activated sweeping devices that prevented them from resting in a particular spot. The population lessened considerably but they did not leave. Once deprived of their high resting areas, the majority moved on to another locale.

[dfish28]

well, I was bowfishing, it just so happened that all the trout i shot were in these birds throats already. i got a good trout stuffed cormorant recipe for the rotisserie... officer