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Fixing the cormorant disaster on the Columbia: 'How could this have come out any worse?'

Cormorant colony on Columbia River bridge still defies solutions, feasts on salmon

Fixing the Columbia River cormorant disaster: 'How could this have come out any worse?'

Pariahs wherever they live and roost, these birds have run into their most recent trouble on this bridge connecting Washington and Oregon.

Fixing the cormorant disaster on the Columbia: 'How could this have come out any worse?'

Double-crested cormorants create conundrum for biologists

Federal rule gives states, tribes flexibility to kill cormorants

A new federal rule gives states and tribes greater flexibility to kill double-crested cormorants for management purposes. Under the new rule, up to 121,504 double-crested cormorants may be killed per year nationally in areas under the jurisdiction of state and federally recognized tribal wildlife agencies that may have been off limits before. Conservation groups worry about the overall impact to the population. Others say the permit is necessary to deal with problem birds and protect state resources and salmon. Agencies interested in the permit must show they tried other, nonlethal methods first. The permit will allow the fish-eating birds to be killed at sites in the 48 states where cormorants are shown to pose a danger to endangered or threatened species, where they impact health and human safety or are damaging state or tribal property and assets, among others factors.