talked to the MNR this summer about the number of them i see flying up the petawawa river,and every morning hundreds fry upriver and late in the day they fly back !!!! guess where they are going ??? right into algonquin park and pigging out on specks,and having their way on all those nice little trout lakes !!!! they are showing up where they never were before...23yrs of fishing the ottawa river up there and never seen any till about 10yrs ago and it was only a few,now they have taken over a few islands in the river,and they are totally dead of any trees,or life period !!!! and the stench is just the most vile thing you have ever smelled !!! the mnr says their habds are tied i went right into the head office in pembroke to complain and get answers from the bioligist !!! its a joke....the cormorants should all be shot....right now believe it or not THEY ARE A PROTECTED BIRD !!!!!!!