Post-Standard says "Cormorants exit."

On October 21, USDA-APHIS New York State Director Martin Lowney announced that summer 2008 was the first season in more than 10 years during which no cormorants nested on Oneida Lake. Lowney, who oversees the successful cormorant harrassment program on Oneida Lake and across Central New York, was speaking at the annual conference of the Oneida Lake Watershed Advisory Council. Interviewed for the October 26 Post-Standard, OLA president Lance Vella says that Oneida Lake anglers are "ecstatic" about the USDA harrassment program. According to USDA's most conservative economic assessment, the program's positive impacts on fishing have saved between 1,500 and 5,000 local jobs and injected at least $47 million in fishing-related spending into the local economy. For more information, visit http://syracuse.com