Bill Text: OR SJM8 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon Senate Joint Memorial 8 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requesting Congress to require federal government to permit targeted take of double-crested cormorants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [SJM8 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-SJM8-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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                     Senate Joint Memorial 8

Sponsored by Senator GIROD

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requests Congress to require federal government to permit State
Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage double-crested
cormorant population in State of Oregon through targeted take.

                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
  States of America, in Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-seventh Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas the number of double-crested cormorants nesting in the
Columbia River estuary has increased dramatically in the last two
decades; and
  Whereas predation on young salmon and steelhead by
double-crested cormorants has substantial impact on the
population of salmon and steelhead in this state; and
  Whereas though the double-crested cormorant was added to the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1972, the same year
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was banned, the cormorant
population has grown steadily to large numbers since then; and
  Whereas in recent years the biggest single nesting colony of
double-crested cormorants has settled on East Sand Island at the
mouth of the Columbia River, where an estimated 10,500 breeding
pairs have eaten 22.6 million young salmon and steelhead in the
last year; and
  Whereas double-crested cormorants threaten the restoration of
wild fish protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
well as hatchery fish important to sport and commercial fishing;
and
  Whereas hazing methods have proven insufficient in deterring
double-crested cormorants from feeding on young salmon and
steelhead; and
  Whereas the failure of nonlethal methods requires that
additional action be taken to mitigate the devastation of the
salmon and steelhead populations by double-crested cormorants;
now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) The Congress of the United States of America is
respectfully requested to pass legislation requiring the federal
government to permit the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to
manage the double-crested cormorant population in the State of
Oregon through the targeted take of double-crested cormorants.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the United States
Secretary of the Interior and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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