We probably do ourselves a disservice when we use the term "water turkey" rather than "cormorant". It's fun to use local terminalogy, it shows that we are part of the "in crowd".

Think of all the problems we have with local names in fish. bz had an outstanding discussion about electricity. What if he had used local terms? It seems like such a small thing but it leads to being less professional when what we are trying to do is become more professional.

Norm Kopecky