Cormorants

Mmmm, slow roasted Cormorant, sounds like it?d be delicious. (I just threw up a little bit into the back of my mouth) [laugh]
 
Brad Bortner said:
I've never eaten one but have banded them and necropsied them They have lots of external parasites (feather lice) and are full of fishy smelling fat. I've always said that the penalty for illegally killing them should include mandatory cleaning and slow baking the whole carcass in your home oven and then consuming them. I suspect that the violator's spouse would exact suitable punishment once the smell of slowly rendered fishy fat starting driving people from the kitchen.[:/]
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Brad,

Many years ago my cousin Anthony and I were duck hunting the upper section of the Shenango River during the late season, the only open water.

We shot some nice fat Mallard drakes, and when we retrieved them Gizzard Shad came out of their bills. Anthony and I looked at each other and said "Thatz not good."

Anthony tried to slow roast them in the oven (we did not breast birds), like you wrote in your post. The stench went through the entire house. That was a lesson that we never forgot.
 
Brad Bortner said:
I read some accounts from 150 years ago that reported flocks that darkened the skies. I wasn?t there so no idea if that was common or a artifact of time and location.
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Ask Pete McMiller... He was around back then! or Dave McCann [w00t]
 
Ontario made cormorant hunting legal in 2020.

Double-crested cormorant seasonWildlife management unitResident and non-resident - open seasonLimits1?50, 53?95September 15 to December 31Daily limit of 15 and no possession limitHere is a episode of Ontario Angler and Hunter Television from last year on hunting them

https://youtu.be/Yd6NDo8xX4o
 
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