By The Way...

Here's some irony for you: Germany went out of its way to protect the cormorant, which went nearly extinct in the 80s. Now the bird has winged away from extinction -- but its feeding habits are threatening endangered fish:

"About 90 percent of river fish are now under massive threat from the birds," said Oliver Born, an official from the Bavarian state fisheries union. "There are some rivers where we have shown that when Cormorants come, 95 percent of the fish disappear by the end of the winter."

Now the German state of Bavaria wants to reduce the cormorant population by killing some of the birds or stealing some the bird's eggs.

So, a question for you: Which would you choose: Fish or fowl? Or is there another option? Discuss amongst yourselves.

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• #3 Comment from olddog299 
  11/14/03 9:22 AM | Permalink

  Manmade solutions to manmade problems tend to fail abysmally. The fish populations are already severely distressed due to pollution on those same rivers and tributaries they reintroduced the cormorants upon. So now they have a problem? Big surprise, isn't it?
• #2 Comment from jellybean1437 
  11/13/03 4:04 PM | Permalink

  ya i'd agree....let nature do its dirty deeds---and sort out the mess....
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• #1 Comment from tenpinproduction 
  11/13/03 12:51 PM | Permalink

  The irony here is delicious.
  
  I say let nature sort itself out.