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Post by dickbaker on Aug 4, 2017 12:16:44 GMT -5
OK! The only other Champlain fishing site seems to think that the best way to help Champlain fish is to "blow Cormorants out of the sky" or poison lamprey into non existence. Both attitudes will provide fuel to the protection clan? I've been doing a great deal of study related to our problem with Champlain Lamprey and Double Crested Cormorants! The lamprey project seems to be gaining but will need to have ongoing pressure. The Cormorant problem is serious and it is hard to determine who to contact to get help? Salmon fishermen seem to think that it is their problem but I'm more concerned about yellow perch (Cormorant's favorite food). I love to troll for salmon in the Spring but warming water finds me chasing warm water fish, especially yellow perch (my favorite food). So, is there anyone out there that can help me limit the cormorant populations that want's to eat all of my panfish? Any input would be appreciated! Dick
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Post by dickbaker on Aug 6, 2017 8:15:34 GMT -5
Seems that Champlain fishermen don't seem to care about long term fish management?? Dick
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Post by nhfishin4fun on Aug 7, 2017 12:55:54 GMT -5
Oh for cryin' out loud! You're too impatient for a response! Besides, I would guess that your answer would be with US FWS since they would manage the protection of cormorants correct?
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Post by mudchuck on Aug 9, 2017 7:59:35 GMT -5
DB, US F&W are the ones that have control and final say over cormorants. I posted an article about how UK is finally coming to grips with cormorant control because they're eating all their fish too, and was sarcastic in what I said that US F&W needs to get a clue too. If enough people raise hell with US F&W to get their undivided attention, then perhaps they'll actually move towards doing something. Not sure who or how to get their attention...anyone have insight into this that could point us in the right direction? As far as writing our congressional representatives, don't bother...total waste of time & effort as they do not respond...been there, done that...
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Post by dickbaker on Aug 10, 2017 9:04:50 GMT -5
Hey nh guy! I waited 2 whole days? That's a lot for someone my age! mudchuck, I emailed USF&W and got a phone call 6 hours later. Looks like they are feeling a lot of pressure and hoping to come up with some sort of solution before the cormorants decide to eat all of the smelt and move to another island to destroy. Keep you fingers crossed. Ate my lunch at the S. Hero causeway and only counted three single cormorant! Just watched underwater lake trout video by Prof. Ellen Marsden of UVM. Date was Nov. 2012 and at that time many of the lake trout had big lamprey attached. Hoping she will go back and do a new video that showed way fewer lamprey. Video was along a rocky shoal near a hatchery and spawning site and the number of lake trout was amazing. I've got to locate that site this fall! Dick
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Post by nhfishin4fun on Aug 10, 2017 9:30:24 GMT -5
Just so you know, using two question marks isn't any better than using one question mark all the time! Do I need to request to become a moderator and ban you from here?
At least it's good to know that USF&W called back. I'm sure the cormorants are a challenging situation for them though. Nobody is going to look at a lamprey and feel sympathy for it but birds are another story altogether. I could just imagine the activists up in arms about FWS stomping on cormorant eggs to cut down on the population!
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Post by dickbaker on Aug 10, 2017 11:40:08 GMT -5
What double question marks? ?? Dick
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