An article on double-crested cormorants or "shags," which the Rockland-based gro

• Main Author: Textor, Ken
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Portland Public Library Digital Commons 2005
• Subjects: Cormorants; Guano; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_downeast/2885

An article on double-crested cormorants or "shags," which the Rockland-based group Friends of Maine Seabird Islands is trying to make a little more popular. The birds' guano can remove a dock's paint and defoliate whole nesting islands. Some in Maine would like to lift restrictio...