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Fishery producers press Congress to reinstate national depredation order for double-crested cormorants
Summary
Rep. Ezell introduced H.R. 2293, the Cormorant Relief Act of 2025, at a House Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing, where catfish and aquaculture producers urged restoring a national depredation order to address double-crested cormorant predation.
Rep. Ezell of Mississippi introduced H.R. 2293, the Cormorant Relief Act of 2025, at a House Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing and was joined by catfish and aquaculture producers who urged reinstating a national aquaculture depredation order for double-crested cormorants.
Proponents said the previous national depredation order, in place from 1998 until vacated by court action in 2016, allowed aquaculturists faster, less costly responses to bird depredation than the current system of individual permits. In testimony, a catfish farmer described annual losses…
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