Cormorant population increasing in NH?

[Johnnh]

I have been seeing an increase in the population of Cormorants in small & medium sized lakes in Merrimack and Hillsborough counties. They are protected so they may present an issue since their primary diet is fish.
Now what?
Any comments?

[Dirt23]

Only been on water 3 times and spotted cormorants on every occasion.  Not good hopefully them and loons start eating each other. Not only 5 cormorants but 11 loons one pack maybe this is why Tarleton is terrible

[lowaccord66]

They will take over.  Theres a few islands on champlain that are decimated from them.  Sorry to hear about tarleton.  I thought the place fished well albeit a bit tricky to figure out.

[zwiggles]

I see them a lot on the coast, but not really up in the lakes region. There are 5 loons currently off the place we are staying on the big lake.

[Johnnh]

Zwiggles,

Chasing last chance salmon?
Or lakers and smallies?

[zwiggles]

Prefer salmon, but I’m an equal opportunity fisherman. 5 green fish this AM, I think the trout were on bugs.