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Old 04-28-2014, 11:32 PM
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Default Re: Cormorants

I enjoy fishing for stocked trout in Park Ridge NJ (Mill Pond, a.k.a Electric Pond). I can no longer fish there. The Cormorants are decimating the stocked trout in this small, shallow lake. When I try to fish there the Cormorants come right over by me and start hunting for the trout. There is no way I can catch a trout when the Cormorants are hunting the trout down 10 feet in front of me. I have never seen Cormorants in NJ until recently and I have been fishing for many, many years. This is a real problem and I believe it is going to get worse. My fishing license fee's are going to the birds (pun intended).

It would be great if the Fish and Game folks could net these birds (the Cormorants are not afraid of people) and send them somewhere far, far away to a place where the Cormorants would be happy. I am not suggesting they be killed.