GRAND ROMAINE AND OLD ROMAINE 



bird, but few are as broad-minded as our cap- 

 tain, so there is no need to worry. Unfor- 

 tunately the bird has a very bad name, and is 

 accused of eating young salmon, and the hand 

 of every salmon-fisher is turned against it. 

 Cormorants are shot as pests and fed to the 

 dogs and to captive foxes. While we were de- 

 tained at Old Romaine, companies of five to 

 twenty or thirty of these weird-looking birds 

 were frequently to be seen flying back and 

 forth from the direction of Grand Romaine 

 River, and the birds' case looked bad. The bird 

 I shot was flying towards the river, and his 

 stomach was filled with small fish, not salmon. 

 It would have been interesting to investigate 

 the stomach-contents of the returning birds, 

 but that I was unable to do. 



In the spring of 1914 the attention of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey was called to 

 complaints of damage done by cormorants to 

 the salmon-fisheries of the Gasp6 coast, and 

 the ornithologist, Mr. P. A. Tavemer, was 

 sent there to investigate. The club anglers of 

 that coast were insistent that the cormorants 

 were doing much damage among the young 

 salmon. Mr. Tavemer found, however, that 



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