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Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:57 am**

Q. Does the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allow the control of double-crested cormorants at aquacultural facilities?

A. Yes. Since 1998, under a depredation order (50 CFR 21.47), the Service has permitted the lethal take, without a Federal permit, of double-crested cormorants at commercial freshwater aquaculture facilities and State-owned hatcheries in 12 southeastern States and Minnesota when non-lethal methods are ineffective at preventing depredation. In the final rule, the aquaculture depredation order was expanded to allow USDA Wildlife Services officials to conduct winter roost control to prevent cormorant depredation at fish farms. Federal and State hatchery managers will also be allowed to control depredating cormorants.

Sounds like a beer drinking barrell smokin' good time to me!

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:27 pm**

Last permit I saw (my dad's permit to take x amount of cormorants, herons, egrets and pelicans on his ponds) you still had to have the dep. permit and only certain people employed by the farm could shoot the birds. It may have changed since then.

Something I would check into before I fell into a snake-neck shoot fest.

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:42 pm**

2 words for commerants....................they suck!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:03 pm**

but you sure can catch some nice catfish up under there roost trees....turd suckers. :lol:

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:43 pm**

Didn't know the part about being a farm employee :oops:

Thanks for that info!

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:02 pm**

Taste like chicken!!! :shock:

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:12 pm**

I always heard if you fry them cormorants up they taste like catfish.

Do you have to use steel shot to kill them?

Posted: **Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:48 pm**

if i made the rules, i'd sure say,'' hell no you dont have to use steel shot!" no need to waste it on them f---ers. use watch ya got. use a malatolla cocktail and have some fun!

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:54 pm**

Them cheeseburger geese are some tuff...?waterfowl?...

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:18 pm**

I heard those suckers can ruin a good dog if ya wound one and it gets ahold of the dog

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:40 pm**

i killed two the other day on a duck hunt.

i like to watch them hit the ground hard :twisted:

Posted: **Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:41 pm**

I heard those suckers can ruin a good dog if ya wound one and it gets ahold of the dog

definitely... they like to peck

Posted: **Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:48 pm**

Water Turkeys.

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:12 am**

'Ol Money sporting a new avatar for the new year! Looks good on ya! :wink:

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:17 pm**

SKY CARP...tastes like chicken!