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#363995 01/24/14 01:29 PM
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Over the past few weeks we have been inundated with cormorants (think this is what they are).
I have not been there to witness but my sister-in-law said they come in the morning (she said about 200 of them not sure) and start dive bombing and eating fish.
As a side effect there are many cranes and herrons along the shore waiting on them to drive fish into the shallow water. She said she saw a blue herron with a bass in its mouth so big it could not fly off with it.

Any ideas on what to do?


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I would start with a shotgun....


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Wow! What part of Mississippi are you? My pond is in southern Ms. and I've never seen a cormorant there.


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I am in Hinds county.

Talked to my biologist and he has seen same in another pond in the past week.

We have a healthy population of TFS and he said likely due to cold weather some of them have been killed off and they are coming in to feed on them.


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Originally Posted By: RockvilleMDAngler
I would start with a shotgun....


Nailed it.

That would be the fastest and most cost effective way to stop this today.

I have never had to deal with them, but I think they may be protected by law. Cannot condone anything illegal.


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It is my understanding they are federally protected.


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Originally Posted By: CGF
It is my understanding they are federally protected.



I understand you can get permits. Your other technique is SSS.


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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You are allowed to harass them without permit, with permit (which depends state to state) you can remove them. If it is temporary issue, I would harass first.


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Shotgun cracker shells may work, they fly about 200' then explode.


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Originally Posted By: Bearbait1
Shotgun cracker shells may work, they fly about 200' then explode.


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In a clients 7/8 ac pond, I did a fish survey this past summer. There were between 1 to 5 cormorants visiting the pond on a daily basis. Roughly 70% of the fish that were caught and re-released into the pond had signs of getting hit by the cormorants, but escaping. There was a total of almost 1,000 fish inspected.

Just think of the added stress and potential for infection on those fish that escaped.


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I was at home this week end and witnessed the problem.

I did scare them off with a shotgun.

They stayed gone 10 minutes and were back.

I guess I will try for a few consecutive days and see if that will work.

Also noticed a few sea gulls in the mix.


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can you see what kind of fish they are actually eating? You said somthing about dead shad?

Are they eating shad or other fish?

Seagulls usually eat dead or half dead fish...

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CGF, instead of scarin em off, leave them breathless!!


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"Scaring off" has been mostly successful here. We live on our pond. Even so, the flying gangsters are always nearby.

How successful you are depends greatly on your being on-site at your pond, especially in the morning. They can show up at any time but morning seems to be their favorite (at +- dawn).

Every spring I go through the same routine of blasting them when ever I see them. Eventually they get sick of it and go to other waters nearby. They still check in on occasion to see if the noise has abated.


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Wouldn't it be nice if grenades were legal?


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
Wouldn't it be nice if grenades were legal?


No, thanks.


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Originally Posted By: Dwight
Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
Wouldn't it be nice if grenades were legal?


No, thanks.


Ah you just need to count right after you pull the pin and not throw too late. grin

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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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Originally Posted By: Shorty
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Why in the hell did they wait so long?! Any background on that video?


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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It was an promotional for a hearing aid company.


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Cecil, I'm think I heard that it was a training exercise. No word if it was supposed to go off that soon or not.


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Originally Posted By: esshup
Cecil, I'm think I heard that it was a training exercise. No word if it was supposed to go off that soon or not.


Those are the kind of guys that look up a gun barrel to see if it's loaded.

We has a guy like those two when I worked with ordinance in ANG. Always screwing up and fortunately we mostly worked with BDU's (bomb dummy units). We always said though if we went to war we'd have to take him out behind a building and shoot him as he'd get us all killed with real bombs. We missed Desert Storm by 20 minutes. He lived. grin

I think he was a child of the 60's with fried brain cells. Everyone called him "Doc." No clue why.

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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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"a child of the 60s"?


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