Your proposal on the hunting…

Your proposal on the hunting season for double-crested cormorants---is ludicrous!

From what I am finding out--populations have been leveling off--attempting to find their own balance in nature.
Culling these birds--will cause them to seek out--new territory--and to re-establish the populations that have been culled. Thereby--making your perceived problems worse (in the eyes of property owners, or fisherman)--and causing increased, undue suffering unto the species.
Man-made stresses unto a species--do not go unnoticed--they simply try to rebound--twice as hard.

Do the right thing for the ecosystem--and private owners--and let the ecosystem, play itself out--into a natural balance. While it may not make everyone happy--in the long run--it will have fewer people unhappy, with the event of the population stabilizing--and with the lack of indiscriminate hunting and suffering placed upon a bird population--that we wanted recovered in the first place!