Cormorant Season Announced

[Snowwalker]

Ewwwww! I wouldn’t want to live down wind !!

You never know, with the heat burning the oil and grease may not be any worse then the chip shop..

Mind you if it smelled like frying fish I could have a weight problem

[canadaman30]

Maybe have a big fire? Haha might smell a little better. Maybe a little worse....

Can dispose of lots in the fire pit..

[oaknut]

Not sure about everyone else but we have curbside pickup for organics. I've seen the colour change in the faces of the trash man when he dumps out a few fish carcasses mid summer, I can only imagine the surprise when 30 Cormorants come out of the green bin!

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[MikePal]

Found some very practical advice to cooking up a Cormorant:

The classic receipt for the preparation and cooking of a cormorant.

Having shot your cormorant, hold it well away from you as you carry it home; these birds are exceedingly verminous and the lice are said to be not entirely host-specific. Hang up by the feet with a piece of wire, soak in petrol and set on fire. This treatment both removes most of the feathers and kills the lice.

When the smoke has cleared away, take the cormorant down and cut off the beak. Send this to the local Conservancy Board who, if you are in the right area, will give you 3/6d or sometimes 5/- for it. Bury the carcass, preferably in a light sandy soil, and leave it there for a fortnight. This is said to improve the flavour by removing, in part at least, the taste of rotting fish.

Dig up and skin and draw the bird. Place in a strong salt and water solution and soak for 48 hours. Remove, dry, stuff with whole, unpeeled onions: the onion skins are supposed to bleach the meat to a small extent, so that it is very dark brown instead of being entirely black.

Simmer gently in seawater, to which two tablespoons of chloride of lime have been added, for six hours. This has a further tenderising effect. Take out of the water and allow to dry, meanwhile mixing up a stiff paste of methylated spirit and curry powder. Spread this mixture liberally over the breast of the bird.

Finally roast in a very hot oven for three hours. The result is unbelievable. Throw it away. Not even a starving vulture would eat it.

[Snowwalker]

Not sure about everyone else but we have curbside pickup for organics. I've seen the colour change in the faces of the trash man when he dumps out a few fish carcasses mid summer, I can only imagine the surprise when 30 Cormorants come out of the green bin!

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You are going to get a visit..

Don't you know they are endangered?

Why does every tree hugger think everything is an endangered species?

[rick_iles]

You are going to get a visit..

Don't you know they are endangered?

Why does every tree hugger think everything is an endangered species?

They’re a lot more endangered after the 15th !!

[parkcity]

very excited but also skeptical. logistics of disposal are annoying. generally they fly close to boats but that behaviour will change quick. solos aren't worth the effort and dive underwater when you get close.

my strategy will be to cut the motor and paddle up to the island as close as possible and blast away. issue with this is survivors are educated. may try and set up near the island but not too near and catch the comers / goers en route.

[SongDog]

So they fly off their big roost each morning then we all set up there and wait for them to come back opening day? Lol

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[js4fn]

I have them come to my pond. Their not that scared but they see movement they leave then come back.
They cleaned out my fish. Now eating frogs. It’s quieter at night so I don’t mind it so much
watched one eat 10 frogs before leaving they are pigs

[Snowwalker]

In New Brunswick we would shoot them as the flew up and down the rivers. Not targeting them, just knew they would be making at least two trips a day. Off the roost and back to the roost.