DNR eye/Vermilion cormorants,

[Lee Borgersen]

   Published August 05, 2012, 12:00 AM


DNR keeps an eye on Lake Vermilion cormorants, fish populations.

Potato Island on Lake Vermilion is a study in black and white. Cormorants and herring gulls nest on the barren, half-acre island in the eastern basin of the lake.




  very good info. Read on.............

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/238932/group/Outdoors/

[Lee Borgersen]

LAKE VERMILION— The Department of Natural Resources will take steps to control Lake Vermilion’s burgeoning cormorant population this summer. The decision, announced this week, comes after calls by a number of resort owners on the lake to take action before the lake’s fishery is damaged.

“I think it’s a good idea,” said Dave Lamwers, owner and operator of Forest Lane Resort. “I’m glad to see the DNR taking action before the fishery is in the hopper,” he said.