Commorant season

[yar 32]

I just read in walleye central that the federal wildlife boys are taking a look at a commorant season to control populations and Mn is on the list.
I for one would love to see a season on those fish eating, island trashing birds.
Just had to vent a little bit
But they did not say when this could be they have to research it a little more.
Just wondering what everybody else thought.

[yellowsubmarine]

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

[Polar Bear]

Kill 'em all...let God sort 'em out.

[Lunker]

I'm not sure if it's weird, but i think it is. I've seen a couple of cormarants as far into the state as the minnehaha creek above the falls the last couple of years. And I'm not mistaken, I'm 100% sure that's what they were.

[Mr. Nailz]

The only problem is how do you get people to hunt them? I'd love to kill a bunch, but I don't want bring them home with me. I really doubt they are good to eat. We just run into that whole wanton waste thing.

[Guest]

People hunt crows and they probably wouldn't mind banging away at these worthless backwards flyin goose want-a-be either.See alot of them during the early part of waterfowl season.

[kslipsinker]

The last couple of years I have noticed more and more on lakes where I fish. My brother had one latch on to his finger in Florida. Have a spring season on them.

[Lunker]

If I found one on one of the lakes I fished, I might have to get out the old .22.

[Guest]

Lake Reno by Alec is a great place to start

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Chells

[catchin'whopper]

I know i have seen bass boats going 60 mph through some flocks on the water, unconfirmed fatalities though.

[Lunker]

Pete, the population of cormorants and their effect on fish especially in the great lakes, is much different than those other species. The populations go unchecked, and in Lake Michigan for example, their main prey is smallies. Comparing this bass akwards goose to a eagle or loon doesn't make a lot of sense.

[Guest]

They don't taste too bad - a little bit like osprey.
Say - that's it!
As long as we're worried about the depredation by cormorants, why not open up a season on loons, pelicans, ospreys, kingfishers and eagles?

[The Chemist]

The cormorant population in the St. Cloud area far exceeds that of the Canadian Goose. We have had several hundred land in the lake during duck hunting. And it's a b--ch to watch them things fly across the lake only to see them do a quick pitch and thenm you realize you've been calling those one-who-thinks-I-am-silly birds. A thinning of the flock is necessary by all means.

[doubleUcubed]

They are incredible fishing birds thats for sure. I sat and watched them for several hours a couple years ago and you would be amazed at the numbers and sizes of fish those birds can take. I believe that I read they can swim up to 38 mph underwater! Now that's a fishing machine! There is a huge population of them in the Willmar area too!

[yar 32]

I do believe that these birds need to have the population put in check. I have seem them on are shallow southcentral Mn lakes eat 10 and 12 inch walleyes in one gulp and many other species as well.
They are asking for input on how to handle these birds.I think the link is in walleye central under general disscusion.

[Lunker]

As far as having a season on them, I don't know how well that would work. I don't know if there is a way to call these birds or not, or if people would want to hunt since u can't eat. And I don't support slaughtering huge islands of them secretly like on lake michigan a few years back. I think they should take either dnr shooters, or volunteers from the fishing community(i would love to) and go to locations where the population needs to be thinned, and kill and dispose a good number. I think a couple guys with .22 mags could do pretty well.

[deadeye]

I think we do need to do a little population control on those birds. I think if we don't we might end up with the same kind of scenario we have with the snow geese. ><>just my 2 cents
deadeye

[musky hunter]

Kill a cormorant save a walleye! No opposition from me on these birds. You should see them roost by the hundreds on the power line pylons across the St. Louis River.

[Guest]

To comment on the other birds Pellies eat alot of rough fish/ I have never seen a eagle dive 30 ft down and bring up walleyes, and the loon is our state bird. Those black things gouge themselves on schools of walleyes and at night there are hundreds if not thousands of them sitting in the trees on my near by 400 acre lake.
It was my understanding you could shoot them during the fall as long as you do not let them lay. (good cat food)But I dont know if it legal the area Dnr Co seen my neighbor shooting them and just told him to pick them up and dont leave a bunch floating in the water. I dont know for sure but sounds like practise for duck season.