So pork skins taste Cormorant $h/***??

So have you ever attempted to get a permit got depredation to shoot them? I have and was unsuccessful because, yes I did not have a hatchery and wasn't a fish farmer.
I know it says in the regs that a permit can be issued for protecting game fish but I can assure you you will not get one at the Fort Eorth office or the Abilene office. And they take their orders from Austin. I was told the part of the law that says issued for protection of game fish meant that TPWD could get a permit for their people or to contract a company to control them.
If you have received a permit to kill them to protect you tanks or private lakes I sure would like to know which office.
The definition of a fish farm was someplace that was permitted to sell fish. For example even though Camalot Bell isn't a hatchery per se they sell fingerlings so hence they are permitted to sell them.

So pork skins taste Cormorant $h/***??

Fish farmers in Mississippi got tired of losing millions of dollars and hired aerial applicators to spray the roosts with soapy water before cold rains, causing the cormorants to lose their oily coating and die of exposure. It worked very well and limited losses.

However, the farmers were filed against for the massacre by the feds. The feds lost in court due to jury nullification, too many relatives of the jurors worked in the fish industry and would not vote themselves out of work.

Now if we could get some of that common sense here in Texas....

I'm all for clean shooting, but this seems a little cruel.

As I was taught a long time ago, good law, bad law, it is the law. Work to get it changed, but until it is changed it is the law.


Ain't got nothing to do with cruel, only the law.