I agree 100% with a proposal…

I agree 100% with a proposal to allow hunting of cormorants. I believe the effectiveness of the program however is almost completely dependent upon the rules to be set about disposing of dead cormorants. If hunters are going to be required to retrieve, bag and dispose of the dead birds [ how and where? ] the program will probably fail. I for one would be prepared to help cull these offensive birds, but I wouldn't want to transport carcasses in my fishing boat.
The cormorants certainly detrimentally effect our fisheries, but on top of that they are filthy, smelly birds whose excrement kills almost everything it touches. While in Cape Breton Island a local small sailboat cruise operator showed everyone aboard pictures of pristine islands once in the lake, and how today the islands were either completely gone or 1/4 their previous size because the toxic cormorant excrement had killed all the vegetation and broken down the limestone and coral islands so they washed away.
I hope this proposal goes forward very quickly, but I also hope that many other options are being considered, like oiling cormorant eggs, and maybe even baiting some cormorants [ if that can be done without harming other wildlife.] I have read newspaper articles about this proposal and some of the weak arguments against it. I for one feel that anything that saves our resources from cormorants is good. Everyone I have spoken to about this is in favor, provided the disposal issue is cleared up.