24 Jan 2010

The Cormorant.

The fact that Cormorants are capable of eating 7 to 10 Ib. of fish daily and yearly consume about £30,000 of fish on the western sea-board, was stated at a recent meeting at Chester, of the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries Committee by ... who moved that a reward of one shilling be given for every Cormorant killed between the little Orrne and Point Lynas, Anglesey." — Daily Mail, 9th Nov. 1929.

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