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Post by Bucktales on Jun 5, 2004 22:35:02 GMT -5
I got to participate in a federal hunt yesterday for Cormorants. They are wiping out our fishery. We shot 130 yesterday, and hopefully a bunch more in the weeks to follow. I have a black and blue shoulder from the 4 boxes of shells I shot. Anyone else ever shoot them?
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Post by Shorthair on Jun 5, 2004 23:21:00 GMT -5
They're not legal here, yet.
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THETOOLMAN
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lets go huntin
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Post by THETOOLMAN on Jun 6, 2004 7:37:55 GMT -5
 I live in columbus ga. a person could have a bang up cormagant shoot nere !!! the chattahoochee river is full of them .. I would like to have some of the info. about how ya'll got it passed ... I would like to get something stirring here!!!
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Post by BlueNorther on Jun 6, 2004 8:03:06 GMT -5
We also have them here and white pelicans.They sit on the Bow River all summer long.There aren't enough to be a problem yet but I see it comming.
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Post by Bucktales on Jun 6, 2004 17:38:39 GMT -5
Toolman, the guys that got the permit have been working on it for a couple of years, it finally got approved. I'll see what I can find out for you.
Blue, it doesnt take long for them to wear out their welcome. Our population has exploded in the last 4 years. They see rafts of over 10,000 birds here in the fall, and several rafts of them that size.
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Post by hunt4fun1 on Jun 14, 2004 15:29:49 GMT -5
They limit them here I think. It's part of waterfowl season.
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Post by flhuntress on Jun 20, 2004 15:52:04 GMT -5
i call them mudddobbers....for some reason i started callin' them that and it's never changed.
i've never shot one though...don't know if i could cause i wouldn't eat it...unless i was starving....maybe
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Post by GoTres on Jun 22, 2004 9:04:33 GMT -5
Hunt, I think they're protected here. Ray Sasser of the Dallas Morning News wrote an article on them recently. The article said that the North American population is estimated at 2 1/2 million. Texas Parks & Wildlife is exploring ways (including permits to shoot them) to control the population.
This is from the article. Pretty interesting:
"Two years ago, a flock of cormorants descended on the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center near Athens. One thousand valuable brood bass were being reared in four small hatchery ponds. The fish were offspring of TP&W's ShareLunker program.
When TFFC staff drained the ponds to capture the brood bass, only 13 of 1,000 bass had escaped the feathery predators. The state facility spent $15,000 on net covering to protect five acres of water from cormorants. "
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Post by GAlabman on Jul 20, 2004 0:00:46 GMT -5
What are they? What do they look like?
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Post by GADAWGS on Jul 20, 2004 20:52:14 GMT -5
Commonly referred to here as water turkeys. They are ugly and worthless. Just like a gator ( University or otherwise) ;D
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Post by Covehnter on Jul 21, 2004 22:10:48 GMT -5
Agreed!
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I live in columbus ga. a person could have a bang up cormagant shoot nere !!! the chattahoochee river is full of them .. I would like to have some of the info. about how ya'll got it passed ... I would like to get something stirring here!!! 
