I think the question they are asking is - "Did killing Cormorants result in better sport fish population for sport fisherman?" That's most likely their metric for success. Marie, Fairborn On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Bill Whan wrote: > They killed--excuse me, culled--more than 5800 nesters in 2006. Does > this year's reduced number represent success for the project? ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]