This proposal is appalling…

This proposal is appalling and anyone with half a brain would agree. Double-brested cormorants are majestic seabirds that have very interesting and complex familial relationships. They remain nestlings until they are three years old, making it impossible to know whether a foraging cormorant is a mother scouting for food for her young. If this proposal moves forward, this could severely impact countless cormorant families and leave these nestlings to die of starvation should their mother be killed by a hunter.

In the United States, they are a federally protected species by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. This act prohibits killing cormorants, their eggs or young and also prohibits the disturbance of the nests or young.

Allowing this inane proposal to move forward is thoughtless and destructive to this beautiful seabird species.