so many tricky decisions to make once you start to play God
The lack of predatory birds serves to allow the slower and weaker offspring of the fish survive.
Don’t do anything. The Cormorants will eat all the fish and then die of starvation ... problem solved. ;-)
I saw this on PBS — the young salmon are given a boat ride down river and dumped there where the cormorants are just waiting for them on their own little breeding ground.
Nuts running the Loony Bin.
New Smyrna Beach FL (NSB) for decades was known as “The World’s Safest Bathing Beach”. Now, after they got a state net ban passed which has resulted in an abundance of baitfish inshore they prohibited commercial shark fishing within 3mi of the beach,in effect creating a marine sanctuary for sharks. Results:
Today, NSB is known as “The Shark Bite Capitol of The World”
Let’s just give the fish EBT cards. Subsidize them. Problem solved.
If cormorants have any redeeming qualities, I don’t know what they are.
What does this hockey puck think happens on the food chain every day? What planet does he live on?
Sounds like a good place to stock with bald eagles!
You can’t truck Fish and Wildlife. Most of our wildlife problems in this State can be traced back to their ineptitude. There is nothing like and educated fool.
government isn’t god.
stop killing our wildlife. let’wildlife determine what wildlife survives and whats doesn’t.
this is why we are in such a mess. we think we just know how everything works and is supposed to work, but we really don’t. global warming crap. inaccurate models. using fear and false results ‘to push policy and reduce quality of life.
Best bet would be to truck EPA, NOAA, Fish & Wildlife, Interior, Agriculture, etc. personnel down to the ocean and dump them in the “protected shark area”.
There’s only one answer......sharks with frickin’ lasers on their heads.
Wha?
Meanwhile, you can walk across the backs of the sea lions at the mouth of the Columbia. Which is only 5 miles wide...
When I was a kid the dreaded predator was the lamprey, that gave way to the northern pike which was introduced to kill the lamprey, which then started to eat the salmon and steelhead eggs and fry, which now has a $3/head bounty paid by the state to get rid of them.
And now the tribes are claiming that the lamprey was a ceremonial fish species so they are trying to re-establish that back into the river, all the while protecting the seals and sea lions which devour the salmon and steelhead.
You all know me. You know that I can take care of this cormorant problem for you. But, I’ll need some supplies. Get me a fly swatter, three gallons of Elmer’s glue and a Snickers bar. I missed lunch.
I’m also going to need some help. I’ll take the urologist and that kid from the grade school who can play FEELINGS with his armpit.
HAHAHA. This decision brought to you by bureaucrats who also killed off the seals to protect stupid fish.
If these salmon are so endangered maybe these fools can go to the grocery store. It’s always on sale.