I disagree with hunting…

I disagree with hunting cormorants and ask that they be protected. Cormorants are not overabundant in the Great Lakes. In fact, their numbers are modest, now stabilized and are dropping in many areas. The mass killing of cormorants will damage the environment and disrupt natural ecosystem processes.The ecosystem is balancing itself. Human interference will only upset balance further so that the government can collect money to issue licences to kill another species until they are all gone.
The mass killing of cormorants will not be beneficial. In fact, the process of killing them will force other bird species (such as herons, egrets and pelicans, all of which are stable) to vacate the colony sites they share.
Cormorants are beneficial because their diet consists of very large numbers of primarily invasive fish, such as alewives and round gobies, as well as other non-commercial, non-forage species.
Only a small number of islands (less than 3%) and peninsula sites are available for cormorants and other colonial waterbirds to nest on. Hunting them wil have a much wider impact than anticipated by your report.
Instead of making cormorants a scapegoat for environmental problems they have nothing to do with, attention should be given to addressing the issues that actually do affect fish populations and aquatic environments, such as climate change, pollution, shoreline and habitat destruction, overfishing and a broad range of other issues.
Pleaase do not approve this lethal proposal that will have impacts far beyond one specie of fauna and flora.