While I understand the…

While I understand the desire to have a hunting season for the cormorants I don't understand how the 50 birds/day is a rational amount? Also, do people eat cormorants? Use the feathers/carcasses for anything at all? If the answer to both of these is no then people killing off essentially all of the cormorants are no better than trophy hunters with tigers or rhinos. Killing off essentially an entire species just because some people view them as a pest is absurd.