http://www.animals24-7.org/2015/09/25/cormorant-massacre-underway/
by Bob Sallinger, conservation director, Audubon Society of Portland
Further to my ANIMALS 24-7 posting of September 14, 2015, Feds resume killing cormorants despite admitting “nesting population targets were met, for the past two weeks, federal government employees from the Wildlife Services office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been shooting double-crested cormorants from a boat in the Columbia River Estuary near East Sand Island. Shotgun blasts have been audible from shore. Observers on shore have also been able to see three federal employees moving about in a small boat shooting cormorants out of the sky and collecting them from the water with nets. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is in charge of the operation, reports that they have shot 863 double-crested cormorants and 10 non-target Brandt’s cormorants in the past two weeks. The Corps intends to continue the shooting into the fall in order to achieve their goal of killing more than 4,000 double-crested cormorants this season.
Oregon Public Broadcasting was able to get the first footage of the killings earlier this week. It is now posted on their website:
Exposing the Big Game 
Wolves, bears, cormorants–the list goes on and doesn’t seem to rise to the level of consciousness for most.
Well said. I hope you don’t mind I would like to quote you when I post this on facebook.
Hi Lelia. Help yourself!
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Why can’t we get rid of them?!? I have signed more letters and petitions, but rarely if ever any follow-up. They are worthless hunters and trappers with their ideal dream job.
They want to end the EPA … what? and keep these idiots? This makes me so angry.