Cormorants:

[NJSquatch]

Originally Posted by FASTEDDIE29

I say kill em all but that's just my PAGAN side of the family speaking out loud.............

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[bunker dunker]

lots of states have opened a hunting season on them.there are just to many and the eat up to 7lbs of fish a day.

[Almaink]

Take a ride over the Calhoun street bridge and look down. They are gorging themselves on the herring as I write this that we are no longer able to catch and use as bait. It's gone far enough time for the State to take action.

[NJ219bands]

Until this year, I saw > 50 cormorants at the Carnegie Lake Aqueduct every spring. Maybe they stayed away this year because of the fish kill there or http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article13846073.html worked.

[Bruce Litton]

They're awful. Once they bombed LM with weed killer, cormorants moved in by the dozens. Until then, weeds were so thick, cormorants couldn't navigate underwater.

[Jigman13]

Originally Posted by phil

I don't think there is anything left in that wastehole, sunnies included

You'd be surprised what lives in there. Tough to find but they're in there

I'm convinced the flounder problem down the shore is largely due to the explosion of cormorants in the inland waterways. You can go down in the spring and watch these birds come up with one flounder after another and not just small fish. Years ago you would see thousands of baby flounder in the marinas during the summer after the flounder dropped their eggs in the spring, the bottom was lined with them. You don't see them anymore even though the fishery is basically closed and fish are still spawning. I believe cormorants are gorging on the young before they have a chance to leave the river. One cormorant probably eats hundreds of small flounder a day multiplied by how may cormorants are down there. It's an epidemic.

[Jigman13]

Seals eat their fair share too. See them in Morgan creek in early spring coming up with flatties in their mouths when helping my father prep the boat.

[River Renegade]

Hate those birds so much, they ruin everything and eat all the trout, bass etc. The state needs to do something. But as always they won't since NJ is cheap and don't like spending $$$$$$

[River Renegade]

Originally Posted by bunker dunker

lots of states have opened a hunting season on them.there are just to many and the eat up to 7lbs of fish a day.

If NJ is one of them? I'll gladly take them out since i hunt.