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12-06-2018, 09:51 AM
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Cormorant Hunting Season?
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12-06-2018, 11:51 AM
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A yearly limit of 15000 per person? Is it enough?😉
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12-06-2018, 12:08 PM
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Didn't Alberta have an egg shaking or egg spraying campaign here? Did it work? Or am I misremembering again?
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12-06-2018, 01:07 PM
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I'm sure they are delicious whichever way prepared
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12-06-2018, 01:13 PM
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Should add Pelicans to the list.
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12-06-2018, 01:25 PM
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Graham Lake
Graham lake NE of Red Earth is an AB example. Used to be green treed rock island mid lake. The birds invaded, and resulted in a nude rock island. Walleye and jack, of all sizes were plentiful in the lake. Now virtually no smaller fish remain and natural balance is likely nonrecoverable, given today's "bleeding heart" interest groups. 2006 photo is after the invasion, next photo, 2012, 6 yrs later. No pre-cormorant photo, just memory.
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12-06-2018, 01:31 PM
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Warning in ONT hunting handbook
Cormorants impose a health hazard !!!
Do not eat Cormorants too often because of possible high PCB contamination
I'll think I'll pass
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12-06-2018, 01:57 PM
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I bet they taste every bit as good as a seagull....the one's that hang out at landfills. Or a crow. Or rat. Who is going to go shoot 50 of those, and then what are you supposed to do with them? More worthless policy.
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12-06-2018, 02:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I bet they taste every bit as good as a seagull....the one's that hang out at landfills. Or a crow. Or rat. Who is going to go shoot 50 of those, and then what are you supposed to do with them? More worthless policy.
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all birds are edible
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12-06-2018, 03:02 PM
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all birds are edible
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Absolutely. But they don't all taste like chicken. There are lots of things that are 'edible' in the world that probably shouldn't be. Durian is one of them. Unless you lift, and like mojitos, and little people. Then its ok.
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12-06-2018, 03:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fish_e_o
all birds are edible
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Shake'n'Bake......
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12-06-2018, 04:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fish_e_o
all birds are edible
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Everyone has different taste buds. I worked with a guy that thought mergansers were the best tasting duck out there
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12-06-2018, 04:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I bet they taste every bit as good as a seagull....the one's that hang out at landfills. Or a crow. Or rat. Who is going to go shoot 50 of those, and then what are you supposed to do with them? More worthless policy.
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Coyote bait
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12-06-2018, 04:37 PM
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They should be harvested for city compost program. Easy peasy.
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12-06-2018, 05:29 PM
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I'm all for this, the real problem is there is 1000s of them inside the city along the Bow, they won't get hunted.
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12-06-2018, 05:48 PM
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Is it wasting if you freeze a bunch of cormorants in a pail for baitsicles??
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12-06-2018, 05:50 PM
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Just amazing that in 1980 they were put on the endangered species list in Alberta. Only a few breeding pairs then. By 2010 there were 8000 breeding pairs just within 25 miles of Lac La Biche. Can't imagine the whole province population number.
I was going to ask F&W if a person with a falconer's licence could have 2 or 3 cormorants to use for fishing like Chinese fishermen. this video is a good example of the size of fish cormorants can eat. No wonder there are less perch and stocked trout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNEplaYZtpI
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12-06-2018, 08:40 PM
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Cormorant hunting.
Those flying rats are terrible on trout ponds. They get stocked, and the cormorants have a hey day. Dig out the coyote rifles boys!
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12-06-2018, 09:53 PM
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I'd eat a coyote before I'd eat a cormorant.
Stinking oily things.
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12-06-2018, 09:57 PM
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I'm sure there have been permits to shoot a limited number from Capt Arye lake in the past.
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12-07-2018, 09:04 AM
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they are an invasive species .
no place for them here IMHO
just like wild hogs, and starlings chukars and other invasive species
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12-07-2018, 09:43 AM
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Those birds are horrible, I grew up in Europe and he have bad issues with them. They are very efficient hunters and there are plenty of cases documented where they completely emptied small streams and rivers. No fish found with electric fishing.
Fish farms have complete lakes emptied as well and it gets to a point where some give up.
In addition to all the dead vegetation the colonies cause. I'm sure a lot of people there would be happy about hunting like in Ontario. They won't be able to kill them all, others will just move in and follow into the free areas. The fish populations recover nowhere near as fast.
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12-07-2018, 09:47 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trigger7mm
Those flying rats are terrible on trout ponds. They get stocked, and the cormorants have a hey day. Dig out the coyote rifles boys!
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Those things are greasy as hell. I'm up for 50 a day-- coyotes gotta eat too
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12-13-2018, 09:58 PM
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I read that Scotland allowed or is giving out 30 cormorant hunting licences this year. Maybe Alberta will follow suit soon.
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12-14-2018, 09:44 AM
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Ok a bamboo raft 2 cormorants piece or two of string a basket and a long pole and be able to dance and chant. How many $$$$$
A 17 ft. fishin' boat, 3 trunk tackle boxes, 8 fishin' rods. How many $$$$$$$?
HMMMMMM LOL and they catch fish easily
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12-14-2018, 10:38 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Battle Rat
I'd eat a coyote before I'd eat a cormorant.
Stinking oily things.
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if i agree to eat the bird will you eat a coyote?
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12-14-2018, 10:53 AM
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So if the Cormorant eats fish and the coyote eats the cormorant Maybe eat them all together like a "Turducken"
"COYOMORANTISH" mmmmmmmmm with gopher gravy
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12-14-2018, 11:06 AM
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I'm not sure if I'd eat them but they sure need to be culled ,as soon as the lakes get stocked they are cleaned up by the cormorants and pelicans.
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12-14-2018, 11:08 AM
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Along with the herons, ospreys etc.
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12-14-2018, 11:26 AM
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Ya I get it, no one likes competition on their favorite spot or lake. By the time we get there all the good spots are gone and the fish. We should have a cull on them or get F&W to charge them for taking more than their limit or poaching where there is a zero retention and fishing out of season. CVR has a big population of both cormorant and pelican population. I can't keep a walleye but they can
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