I totally oppose this change…

I totally oppose this change. By your own admission the population has stabilized or gone down. There is no need for this killing for the sake of killing. Birds will be left to rot - who wants to take home a dead bird you can't eat? This will cause problems with animals that eat the birds with bullets in them and attract carrion. Leslie Spit has lots of cormorants; how long before someone decides to go down there and shoot some, in an urban area? But the big question for me is why are you encouraging killing for killing's sake?