The cormorants population…

The cormorants population was almost pushed to extinction due human causes. This indigenous species just started to count a normal numbers of birds. No scientific study has had time to seriously predict the impact hunting would have on the specie. The argument of too many birds, when it is about indigenous species, is irrelevant. It has been proven that they do not feed on fish the fishing industry is interested in. And the supposedly foul smell is insignificant compared to the smell of human pollution around the Great Lakes.
More important, the possibility for hunters to shoot from the shore and from stationary boats increases the danger to other humans. The growing attraction of the lakes in all seasons for swimming, boating, hiking, stand up paddle boarding and bird watching on the exact place where cormorants are found is a very serious risk none shall take.