This is an entirely…

This is an entirely unacceptable, and obscene policy proposal. Please, explain the rational behind obliterating these birds for 3/4's of the year with a blood-lust "limit" of 50 cormorants/day with no possession limit, and then allow the dead and dying birds to simply rot wherever they fall?

I am absolutely appalled that such a misguided and misinformed policy is even being considered based on "concerns" from the very individuals who support and would participate in this mass slaughter. The concerns listed are nothing more than self-serving excuses for indiscriminate and unscrupulous hunting, and most, if not all, have been debunked.

I am particularly disturbed by the total lack of thought or consideration given to the nesting season when BOTH parents are needed to tend their young. This open season would leave innumerable off-spring orphaned to suffer miserable, protracted deaths through exposure, dehydration, and starvation. How is it that there is no exemption made for nesting season, and nesting colonies? Unless of course that's the reason behind creating the exemption allowing small game licences to be valid from June 16 to August 31 - to kill off the remaining stragglers.

This policy proposal is a deliberate and intentional tactic to allow a select group of individuals the opportunity to lawfully, and with impunity decimate the double crested cormorant population just for the sheer joy of killing something.

How have we not evolved beyond such a base and primeval instinct?