Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Cormorants?

Hello, Rick. Always good to hear from a Yooper.

My thought is that Cormorants can cause your BG to disappear, not stunt. IIRC Bob Lusk once wrote of a LMB pond where Cormorants removed so many of the bass the remaining ones grew to exceptional size, due to the large remaining available food for what few were left; things happened to balance out just right in that case. It seems like their predation on HBG would also leave more food for the survivors.

Try doing a search for "cormorant" or "water turkey" in the Questions & Observations category; there are 40 or so threads about these menaces. Several of the Texas PMs have, unfortunately for them, lots of experience with water turkeys. They also bother fish lovers elsewhere as you know.

For serious information on Cormorants, do not read any thread on them I started.