Cormorants

Seen a couple a week ago counted 22 this morning on my property sitting in a maple tree over looking a pond
can we shoot them yet legally?
the tree is already showing leaf thinning

there is still the 3S'S rule.

If they open a season, it would likely be the same time as other waterFowl. End of September to December, when Cormorants have all but left. Then when there little to no Cormorants shot they can say there is no interest and no need for a season.

I’d save the tree

We spent the past month of February in Louisiana. I gave up counting but for the first few evenings I counted roughly over 500 within 10 minutes coming in to our bay to overnight. After seeing that, I wonder if shooting a few dozen would make any difference.











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Originally Posted by sawbill

We spent the past month of February in Louisiana. I gave up counting but for the first few evenings I counted roughly over 500 within 10 minutes coming in to our bay to overnight. After seeing that, I wonder if shooting a few dozen would make any difference.











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The season would need to be over the spring and summer. When the birds are here.

I've always been puzzle why we think the Cormorants should be shot off. Have they now become more successful than the human specie and the desire to shoot them is rooted in jealousy?

You don't stop hunting because youn grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

To simply answer the OP's question. No you can not shoot cormorants legally yet.

say goodbye to your tree.

Bad weekend to really do any shooting Comorants move on by 7:00am

But on a side note this pond had a tremendous frog population where you couldn’t sit outside after 8:30 pm without going deaf
last two mornings I would say the Cormorants have removed 70% of the frog population fish were taken early in the spring

Bring on the mosquito’s ?