It would be more than okay…

It would be more than okay with me to list the Double-Crested Cormorant as a game bird. I have seen cormorants swoop in on a Put and Take Fishery (city pond) after the pond was stocked with Rainbow trout. The trout were quickly consumed, then the birds headed elsewhere leaving a pond vacant of the trout stocked for the local fishermen. Stocking the fish is not without human labor and expense and the depredation by these birds can't be eliminated, but can be reduced by instigating a status change from protected to game bird.

NOT part of your request for input, but we are seeing way too many messy Canada Geese in Texas. Fifty years ago I would see very few around our city parks. Colorado golf courses are a mess. So much poop on the greens you can't putt straight. Increase the bag limit on Canada Geese, too. Thank you.