Feds to “Oil and Shoot” Salmon-Killing Cormorants
In a bid to save embattled Columbia River fish populations, the feds have devised a plan to kill 11,000 double-crested cormorants—black seabirds with a bad hankering for juvenile salmon and steelhead. Pending final approval, state agriculture workers would shoot the birds, as well as spray their eggs with vegetable oil to prevent hatching. The U.S. Army…