To think that you can limit…

To think that you can limit the population of cormorants with a hunting season is naïve at best. Having people with guns for most of the year in sensitive aquatic habitats is not a good idea. There are hundreds of other bird species that may be negatively impacted by hunting. And how can one call this hunting? It is a wholesale slaughter. It is not the cormorants fault that they are successful. And the birds will die for no particular reason other than their numbers are too high according to some particular scientific authority? An unlimited kill during most of the year? The cormorants are not the problem and if they are, it is because of us. How could any government agency aligned with protecting the environment advocate any kind of slaughter of any animal in sensitive aquatic habitats? The passenger pigeons were once troublesome with their numbers. Another slaughter solved that problem. What can you do? Never advocate hunting. It is arrogant by any government wildlife agency to think that they can 'manage' wildlife by unleashing an army of hunters with no limits. How can anybody call that management? We need knowledge before we go about reducing this and augmenting that. Humans have shown that they have little success in 'managing' wildlife. We have changed the fauna of the Great Lakes to such an extent with exotic species, it is no wonder that certain native species may take advantage of us fiddling with the diversity for the sake of fishing. Look at the coyote. A southwestern species that is spreading over the continent in spite of an open hunting season and 'management'. Please do further studies on the cormorant situation. Mass killing is not the solution. Pay for the science. Help us to understand how to tweak the already massively dysfunctional Great Lakes ecosystem, to benefit living organisms other than Homo sapiens.
Thanks.