Helron Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Time to open up a hunting season for these things! They are catchibg bigger fish then me! Check out this link. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512830/Snapped-The-moment-fearsome-pike-swallowed-ravenous-cormorant.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phranchise Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Photography at it's best. What an amazing bird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coreyhkh Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Something should be done about these birds they are destroying everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ketchican Kid Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Something should be done about these birds they are destroying everything. I second that................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Check out these pictures, see how distructive these damn things are...... Belly filled with perch Emptied out stomach filled with perch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ketchican Kid Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Well, now i know were all the fish from tobermory went! WTG gross birds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pike212 Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Gotta train them to do that to gobies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Gotta train them to do that to gobies That would be good if they ate gobies but they don't school up like perch . I saw a cormorant swallowing a good size trout ,about 10 to 12" at Port Dalhousie harbour a few yrs.ago . I was amazed and angry to see that happen . I have seen flocks of these birds a mile long at the Bay of Quinte and L.Ontario near Jordan Harbour . I hope the ministry is keeping tabs on this situation . The perch population seems to be thriving well in spite of these birds .(check out the latest posts on the perch catches) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foremanian_one@hotmail.com Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Are people angry because they are invasive? Seems like they are just doing their thing, and what they have always done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 The MNR are doing something about these birds . Their aim is reduce the giants flocks by up to 90% in the Thunder Bay & L.Michigan areas . These birds have been wiping out whitefish , perch & brown trout populations . This article (2008) is very interesting and maybe there is hope we will reduce these birds populations . http://blog.mlive.co...inning_cor.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pike212 Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Dunno the merit behind it but a buddy told me they're killing cormrant eggs in Niagara region?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captnn Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Why broadcast it. Out of sight out of mind, if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisb Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Dunno the merit behind it but a buddy told me they're killing cormrant eggs in Niagara region?? I have heard about that also. They oil them so they can't hatch and birds still sit on them trying to hatch them instead laying new eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnow killer Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Check out these pictures, see how distructive these damn things are...... Belly filled with perch Emptied out stomach filled with perch now i definately don't feel bad about runnin one over with the boat, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rockfish Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Are people angry because they are invasive? Seems like they are just doing their thing, and what they have always done. Depends how long ago someone would think that they were invasive at one time as they expanded their range. Double-crested Cormorants are not new to Ontario; they are known to have been a resident of Lake of the Woods since 1798. The earliest nesting record for cormorants in Ontario is from Black Bay in Lake Superior in 1920. By 1931, cormorants were breeding in Lake Huron and by 1938 they were breeding in Lake Ontario. Today cormorants are found throughout the Great Lakes and in many inland lakes and rivers in Ontario. http://www.ofah.org/cormorants/ How bad is the cormorant crisis? Biologically speaking, it's out of control. Provincially, cormorant numbers are 250-times historic population records. Each cormorant eats a minimum of one-pound of fish per day; in other words, it takes about three yellow perch to feed the cormorants' voracious daily appetite. In Ontario, the net effect is over 42 million pounds of fish consumed by cormorants each year. Worse than what cormorants take is what they leave behind - that is, only the skeletons of mature shoreline trees. Cormorant droppings are so toxic they have destroyed thousands of miles of precious shoreline habitat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasucker Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Ya. If you look at the shoreline along the niagara river most trees on the water are dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammercarp Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 The government should ( god I hate those words ) start accepting bids on cormorant control contracts via egg oiling. It's just part of the way we handle wildlife now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvevolution Posted November 19, 2010 Report Share Posted November 19, 2010 n the flip side of the coin, they are a good indicator of fishing conditions. if you've never watched them, I suggest that you do, cause it's interesting. when the Cormorants aren't feeding, the bite is low or dead. when they are feeding, the bite is good. even though these birds are detrimental to the environment, they are good for at least one thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEdge Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 They've become a major problem for the crappie populations here in Oklahoma. On top of that, the mess they make. We crappie fish (as I've explained to a few guys I've gone out with here) in floating houses over structure on the water. The houses have a huge hole in the floor to fish through (similar to an ice hut, but the hole is 8' by 20' in most cases). More times than I can count, a cormorant will dive for fish, and come up in the middle of that house. Instead of diving, and going back out, they always take off, jump the railings, and decide to make a complete mess out of the place with their droppings. One house has the doors and windows closed, and four birds were stuck in there for close to six hours. I'm glad I didn't see the mess from that incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Andrews Posted November 23, 2010 Report Share Posted November 23, 2010 Sorry Dave but I had to remove the link to zoocheck. BTW did you see their page dedicated to "saving" the cormorants? Because they need saving right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rockfish Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 That whole link I posted has changed, it was just a .pdf doc and now has new pics and links added. Strange things happen on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Andrews Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 Yep they saw the traffic from here and made adjustments. They are much more organized and motivated then us resource users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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