They're always looking for scapegoats. It never occurred to any of them that cormorants, sea lions, and Caspian Terns have been around long before humans arrived, and they didn't wipe out the salmon populations. Then along came people and clearcuts and agricultural runoff and dams, not to mention overfishing by humans. Gee, do you think that might have some effect on the salmon?


Barry Ulman
Bellingham, WA.


On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:16 AM, wheelermombi at comcast.net wrote:

> As well as California sea lions. Very frustrating.
>
> Lonnie Somer
> Olympia
> wheelermombi at comcast.net
>
> From: "Dennis Paulson" <dennispaulson at comcast.net>
> To: "TWEETERS tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:53:59 AM
> Subject: [Tweeters] the cormorants are next
>
> Official and unofficial programs of eliminating Caspian Terns have proven fairly successful. Now they're starting on the Double-crested Cormorants. Will Brown Pelicans, not long ago a listed species, be next? What if Marbled Murrelets proved to be major salmon predators?
>
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018081392_cormorants27.html?prmid=4748
>
> How about all the people enlisted to harass and, perhaps, kill cormorants? Do they know how to distinguish among our three species?
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