So this legislation is a…

So this legislation is a response to concerns about "too many cormorants." What does that mean? The government's offered no real data to back up a litany of unsubstantiated claims and anecdotes. But it's ready to give hunters an essentially unmonitored license to kill.

Fifty cormorants per hunter per day... fourteen THOUSAND a season. It's an invitation to use these creatures for target practice -- and leave the carcasses behind to rot.

Before this proposed slaughter (or any amended version of it) gets a green light, show us the science. Prove that these birds have truly compromised fish stocks, or that their numbers are anywhere near out of whack. Estimates put the double-crested cormorant population at about 125,000 in the Lower Great Lakes Region. With legislation like this, these birds could be gone in a heartbeat.