"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced a despicable plan to execute nearly 16,000 double-crested cormorants near the Columbia River in order to “protect” declining salmon and trout populations. Hunting cormorants account for a only a small percentage of the fish killed every year. Despite evidence confirming humans’ responsibility for the drop in fish numbers, these birds continue to be persecuted by the government.
Animal rights groups and environmentalists all point to the same factors devastating fish populations: dams, pollution, over-fishing and habitat modification. Dams modify the natural water flow, scattering fish and hampering migration. Construction of dams ruins local habitat and can directly lead to the deaths of salmon. In response the water becomes tainted and the temperature increases, making it ill-suited to sustain salmon and trout.
Demand that the Army Corps of Engineers call off its unwarranted massacre. Tell the Corps to target the real perpetrators: dam construction and habitat degradation. Call for these innocent birds to be spared, rather than blamed for problems that humans have caused."
