Cormorants are beneficial…

Cormorants are beneficial because their diet consists of very large numbers of primarily invasive fish, such as alewives and round gobies, as well as other non-commercial, non-forage species. It is the commercial fisheries in Lake Erie and other lakes that are depleting fish populations, not cormorants.
The mass killing of cormorants will damage the environment and disrupt natural ecosystem processes.
The return of cormorants, a native wildlife species, to the Great Lakes Basin is part of a natural process and should be celebrated