(AP) -- Another showdown is brewing between fishermen and cormorants.
It seems the long-necked diving birds are multiplying on Black Lake, a popular fishing spot in St. Lawrence County. The birds, which eat a lot of fish, have been driven from other areas on the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario where their expanding populations have threatened fisheries.
The Watertown Daily Times reports that a committee of St. Lawrence County legislators is asking the Department of Environmental Conservation to train and supervise volunteers to harass the birds on Black Lake so they'll head somewhere else.
A similar program has been conducted on Oneida Lake, where volunteers chase the birds by boat and scare them with whistling fireworks.
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