Feds approved killing birds to save fish, despite warning it wouldn't work

Photo:Peter Wallack

In an effort to protect endangered salmon and steelhead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved plans to kill double-crested cormorants nesting on an island at the mouth of the Columbia River despite internal research showing the plan wouldn't work.

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Court won't block salmon-saving plan to kill cormorants

Photo: Hans Stieglitz

Save our wild cormorants salmon.

A judge has refused to block a plan to shoot more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River estuary.

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Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to stop plans to shoot more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River Estuary.

Bob Salinger of Audubon Society of Portland says killing the birds to stop them from eating millions of baby salmon is a diversion from the real threat — the hydroelectric dams that kill adult fish on their way to spawning grounds, and juveniles migrating to the ocean.

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Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/04/20/4251529_groups-sue-to-stop-plans-to-kill.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

The Surprise Salmon

Be prepared to burn 52 minutes.

In Alaska, the fresh water that feeds the rivers is snowmelt from North America’s highest mountains and most active volcanoes. Time and again, they erupt and poison the rivers. Scientists have only just begun to piece together what might have happened nearly 2,000 years ago, when one race of salmon faced the death of their natal river and were forced back to the open ocean.

Cormorants to be killed to see if they eat protected salmon

Photo: Mike Baird

The definition of insanity.

Cormorants, which are protected by the Migratory Species Act, are being killed to see if they are eating protected salmon.

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Oregon asks to kill salmon-eating birds

First sea lions, now double-crested comorants.

LINK (via: The East Oregonian)