The Cormorant population has…

The Cormorant population has decimated the unique vegetation on the Erie Islands and further areas within the provincially and federally Protected Hillman and Point Pelee marshes has suffered the loss of trees due to their nesting and roosting locations. This loss will undoubtedly lead to erosion and habitat loss endangering other wildlife in this unique ecosystem and Pelee island is also suffering from the shear numbers of a bird that was possibly introduced as a nuisance in North America. The Cormorants also deplete the fingerling fish stocks in the Western basin of Lake Erie. This is contradictory to the strict limits placed on recreational and commercial fisherman. The number that the Federal Parks cull during the spring is failing once again to control the nuisance population