08-02-2006, 01:05 PM
[cool][#0000ff]California has major problems with both mergansers and cormorants. The cormorants are big birds and can really eat a lot of fish. They just about wipe out entire stocks of hatchery fish and commercial fish raising operations...but they are protected. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Kinda like the sea lions in the rivers that salmon and steelhead run up in the fall. The protected pinnipeds chow down on thousands of fish, in sight of aggravated fishermen who have seen their favorite waters closed or seasons limited because of dwindling stocks of fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]And then there is the issue of restricting sports catch while allowing continuing commercial harvests. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Don't get me started.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Now, if we could only prove that mergansers and cormorants had ties to Al Qaida...or that they were hiding weapons of mass destruction...[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Kinda like the sea lions in the rivers that salmon and steelhead run up in the fall. The protected pinnipeds chow down on thousands of fish, in sight of aggravated fishermen who have seen their favorite waters closed or seasons limited because of dwindling stocks of fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]And then there is the issue of restricting sports catch while allowing continuing commercial harvests. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Don't get me started.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Now, if we could only prove that mergansers and cormorants had ties to Al Qaida...or that they were hiding weapons of mass destruction...[/#0000ff]
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