Tweets,

Please copy Marc & Mae Fulmer <m2 at wolfenet.com> with any suggestions to
their query below.

Thanks,

Dan Victor, Seattle, WA <dvictor at u.washington.edu>
Tweeters = http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dvictor/

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Marc & Mae Fulmer wrote:

> Dear Mr. Victor,
>
> I have been working at a Winery/farm in Woodinville Wa. for the last
> couple of years. We have several stream fed ponds on the property and
> they have been stocked with rainbow trout. There are some brown also.
> Getting to the point, one or two comorants have discovered the ponds
> and are eatting the fish population. We planted about 300 6" rainbows
> that were doing great up until the last two months when the comorants
> found us. Do you have any suggestions to deter the comorants from
> coming into the property? They seem to land only in the largest of the
> six ponds and have eatten nearly all of the 150 trout that were planted
> there.
>
> Does the comorant have any natural enemies? Would silhouettes of a
> specific hawk or eagle work?
>
> I would appreciate any information you can give me or any source of
> information you can direct me to.
>
> Sincerely,
> Marc Fulmer
>