Open season on Cormorants

[johny]

All those birds could not exist if they did not have a large healthy population of fish to eat.
If they ate all the fish, they would die or forced go to other lakes.
So, if they continue to be in the same areas year after year, it can only mean there must be a lot of fish for them to eat.

Check out Lake of the Woods or Rainy Lake---both have had bazillions of cormorants for 30+ years.
Both lakes remain excellent fisheries for walleye, pike, perch, bass...you name it.
The cormorants just prove there are a lot of fish in the lake. If you can't catch what you want...change you methods.

[smitty55]

Cormorants have been proven to have a very detrimental effect on Loon populations let alone the fish stocks and the ruination of the local flora. That's all I need to know. Plus they keep spreading, there never used to be any around here in the last century. Shoot them all I say.

Cheers

[SK33T3R]

holy moly!!! I can't believe it!
Did Santa came early to the MNR policy makers this year and give someone a BRAIN!

Only 20 yrs too late. I'll need a bigger tackle box for the shells.
Does Big Jon Downriggers make interchangeable gun holders.

This is almost as good as those Texas helicopter pig hunts!

Also I wonder if the charters will offer cormorant shooting to go along with the fishing experience!

Is hunting allowed in Burlington bay by the skyway?

Hell I might even set up on the skyway!

[Snowwalker]

holy moly!!! I can't believe it!
Did Santa came early to the MNR policy makers this year and give someone a BRAIN!

Only 20 yrs too late. I'll need a bigger tackle box for the shells.
Does Big Jon Downriggers make interchangeable gun holders.

This is almost as good as those Texas helicopter pig hunts!

Also I wonder if the charters will offer cormorant shooting to go along with the fishing experience!

Is hunting allowed in Burlington bay by the skyway?

Hell I might even set up on the skyway!

Best pass shooting in the province.

One of our trucks hit/got hit by about three of them on the skyway. Big dents, broken windshield, and the stink.

[rick_iles]

All those birds could not exist if they did not have a large healthy population of fish to eat.
If they ate all the fish, they would die or forced go to other lakes.
So, if they continue to be in the same areas year after year, it can only mean there must be a lot of fish for them to eat.

Check out Lake of the Woods or Rainy Lake---both have had bazillions of cormorants for 30+ years.
Both lakes remain excellent fisheries for walleye, pike, perch, bass...you name it.
The cormorants just prove there are a lot of fish in the lake. If you can't catch what you want...change you methods.

They have completely decimated some islands in the west end of Erie, as well as their roost areas along the lakes and bays. It’s not just the fish predation issues.....

[line052]

Hahahahhahahaha

there are recipes, but i was thinking maybe you could burn them. Three pieces of wood and a couple cormorants in the stove should burn for awhile..

You coukd layer them like i did with wood and bags of coal out west. Green wood on the bottom of the stove( four by three by four foot box), two bags of coal on top, coal oil, topped off with one layer of green wood a layer of dry wood a splash of coal oil on the top wood and lighter up. The stove would burn for about a month to five weeks in a northern alberta winter.

[DanO]

All those birds could not exist if they did not have a large healthy population of fish to eat.
If they ate all the fish, they would die or forced go to other lakes.
So, if they continue to be in the same areas year after year, it can only mean there must be a lot of fish for them to eat.

Check out Lake of the Woods or Rainy Lake---both have had bazillions of cormorants for 30+ years.
Both lakes remain excellent fisheries for walleye, pike, perch, bass...you name it.
The cormorants just prove there are a lot of fish in the lake. If you can't catch what you want...change you methods.

You're partially right, IMO. There's a huge lag of time between when the predator peaks and theprey declines. The cormorants will emigrate into interior lakes like Algonquin Park area before you see a decline in their numbers across Ontario. It could be decades after the fish prey decline before you see the cormorants decline. I wouldn't assume there's lots of baitfish still out there just because the local cormorants haven't declined yet.

[jaycee]

holy moly!!! I can't believe it!
Did Santa came early to the MNR policy makers this year and give someone a BRAIN!

Only 20 yrs too late. I'll need a bigger tackle box for the shells.
Does Big Jon Downriggers make interchangeable gun holders.

This is almost as good as those Texas helicopter pig hunts!

Also I wonder if the charters will offer cormorant shooting to go along with the fishing experience!

Is hunting allowed in Burlington bay by the skyway?

Hell I might even set up on the skyway!

They might, as long as there is no forward motion of the boat ?

[Snowwalker]

They might, as long as there is no forward motion of the boat ?

The heck with the boat, just stand on the island. Either way you can bet there would be a lot of rubber neckers, and calls about guys with machine guns shooting at cars.

[johny]

You're partially right, IMO. There's a huge lag of time between when the predator peaks and theprey declines. The cormorants will emigrate into interior lakes like Algonquin Park area before you see a decline in their numbers across Ontario. It could be decades after the fish prey decline before you see the cormorants decline. I wouldn't assume there's lots of baitfish still out there just because the local cormorants haven't declined yet.

If there is no food--you die.
Or you move to somewhere that has food.