Assertion: cormorant's population | /r/HasProperty | only 1,000 birds
Facets:
value: by 1932
type: TEMPORAL
value: despite government protection since 1904
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The Bird Rocks colony in the Gulf of St Lawrence may once have held 250,000 birds, but unchecked hunting, including for fish bait, meant that the population was only 1,000 birds by 1932, despite government protection since 1904.