I strongly object to the…

I strongly object to the proposed legislation concerning the killing of Double-Crested Cormorants. Allowing such wholesale slaughter for nine months of the year will adversely affect other migratory birds including Common Terns, Caspian Terns, Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, and White Pelicans. Such birds are currently protected by the federal Migratory Birds Convention Act.
In addition, the lakes and rivers where Cormorants live will be unsafe for the public during the nine month hunting season and there is no provision for removal of the carcasses which will be detrimental to the environment.
Other proven more human methods to reduce the cormorant population such as egg painting should be considered as a workable alternative. This can be properly monitored to rate impact and success.
Finally, it is a tremendous oversimplification to assume that we can re-engineering natural ecosystems by a mass killing of one species. A more controlled regulation such as described above would be more effective.