Strawberry Pelican Problem

[MSM1970]

Yes they are a problem, Alan Ward is the biologist for strawberry, I have worked with him to get my dedicated hunter hours, I have gill netted, planted willow, and hazed pelicans, well chased them off the river, they are very persistent, most that I have seen they are eating the suckers, or atleast that's mostly what I have seen them puke up after I sneek up on them and throw rocks, they will eat enough that they cant get off the ground. its kinda funny,

During the walleye spawn at UL they take a lot of fish when they are rolling, more than I can catch, but not all survive [sly](see pics)

I think it was last year the UofU put gps on several of them,
[url "https://wildlife.utah.gov/pelican_webmap/"]https://wildlife.utah.gov/pelican_webmap/[/url]
its surprising all the places they go, if you only seen 40 the rest where the strawberry river comes in, I've seen hundreds, to my under standing they are studying the impact they have on the fish. talking to Alan maybe with this study they can thin the flock, but he says he gets the fist tag[]
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