I am opposed to allowing…

I am opposed to allowing this because I do not agree with the rationale for this. Cormorants are cited for damaging trees when they roost in them. How many trees are routinely being felled to allow for construction of new housing? The complaint is that the trees are an unpleasant site. I doubt that the cormorants roost that close to residential housing for this to really matter. The fishermen complain that cormorants compete with them for the fish. How often do fishermen deplete the populations of fish, like out East. The cormorants would not do this because their populations would cycle with that of the fish. The problem, as usual, is human population growth.