I have lived on the North…

I have lived on the North Channel of Lake Huron for the last 20 years. 15 years ago there are about 2000 cormorant around the Pine Island area and around 4,000 around beach beach area on St Joe's Island ....both areas suffered dramatic fish decreases and the population of perch, bass, walleye and Pike. The flocks were so thick you could hardly see through them when they flew away. Islands that they roosted on we're totally disseminated by their droppings. After 20 years of studying them by MNR biologist they finally are going to do something about the overpopulation of these birds and damaging effects to our Lakes. As the fish population of the above-mentioned species in the Pine Island area of the North Shore is very slowly coming back but still have a couple dozen cormorants working the area. You can see the effect on how many ice fisherman or boats with fishermen during the summer has dropped dramatically over the last 5 years due to the poor fishing of these above-mentioned species and this area. Thank you for doing something about this species and its effect on the fishing population.