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LANSING – Double-crested cormorants are continuing to draw attention from wildlife researchers amid strong disagreements about whether the birds – whose numbers have grown in recent decades – are harming fish populations, reducing recreational and commercial fishing opportunities and damaging natural habitats in the Great Lakes region.
Their consumption of threatened and endangered fish species is among the concerns.
Last year, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reported that “as part of the (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) permit system, we query all of our fisheries managers and field biologists each year to provide locations where cormorant conflicts exist in the state. We currently have 50+ sites where conflicts exist.”
In a separate 2022 report, DNR said, “Collectively, cormorants eat tens of millions of pounds of fish a year in Michigan and are especially lethal at fish stocking sites.”
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Exposing the Big Game 
Wow humans are so awful
We wonder whether cormorants are harming fish populations as our boats have fished out and destroyed all fisheries and most of there habitats
God forbid some birds would be allowed to eat too
Ugghh I have little hope for humans and the species we decimate
Unfortunately, it may not come back on humans until they’ve decimated most other species…