I am commenting on the…

I am commenting on the Double-Crested Cormorant Hunt. I agree with using hunters by the shooting of the Double-Crested Cormorant to assist in the control of the overabundant Cormorant.

I live on a small Lake that there are three or more families of the Common Loon. The Cormorant have just landed in this lake and now are competing for the same food. I have worked and helped to rehabilitate Walleye spawning beds and other fish habitat rehab work and now see the Cormorant hunting the fish that live a use these areas.

I have seen and continue to see the damage on islands and points in the lakes and rivers that are devastated by the Cormorant. I am not sure if you would call this a hunting season because a hunting season is a season you can hunt for fur or food, these birds are not food for people to eat. I think I would call it a hunt with guns to help assist in the control of the overabundant Cormorant. I would suggest to shoot these birds in the spring before they have hatched any young and in the fall when heading south. I am glad that finally you have recognized that the Cormorant is out of control and hunters can be used to help control the overpopulation.