Merganser Eating Fish at Budd Lake What Species?

[huntcountypussbuck]

See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jggilbert/8532898460

Looks like a White Perch to me... What is your guess?

[Bergen Angler]

It is white perch and it says.. White Perch. :)

[huntcountypussbuck]

Photographer must have just changed the name of the picture. That is so funny. Just said "fish" earlier.

[bigfishy]

HUH?? I thought common mergansers were the all dark ones?? Always assumed that ones with white bodies were some type of loon....Never cared enough to research em that far....

Tons of the darker ones in the big D when the herring are runnin in the trenton area...

[surfrod]

a pair of mergansers:

http://www.billhubick.com/images/common_merganser_pair_ha_md_20070218_01.jpg

[buzzbaiter]

They are better fisherman than most of us and thus we should hate them. A few years back I scared a flock on a small trout stream. I guess one got so scared(I'm really not THAT ugly looking. lol) and regurgitated its last meal(s). Below is a pic which includes two white suckers and wild brown trout. The one sucker was ~8" and the brown trout ~4". Just goes to show you a) how many fish they can eat and b) how large. One flock can put a serious dent in a streams fish population if they hang out for a week or so. If you ever see them, throw rocks at them or sticks or use dynamite for all I care, just get rid of them. And yes I have seen them on the Passaic(more so the Delaware and its tribs). Who knows how many small pike they must be eating. Those 2-5" fingerlings the state stocks are a happy meal for them.

[Mark B.]

HUH?? I thought common mergansers were the all dark ones?? Always assumed that ones with white bodies were some type of loon....Never cared enough to research em that far....

Tons of the darker ones in the big D when the herring are runnin in the trenton area...

darker ones = Double Crested Cormorants