Urge the Fish & Wildlife Service to deny the depredation permit To The Army Corps of Engineers to kill 11,000 cororants

I am writing to urge you to deny a depredation permit under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to kill 11,000 Double-crested Cormorants at East Sand Island and destroy of 26,000 nests. This misguided plan will do little or nothing to reverse the decline of endangered salmon, because it ignores science and the root causes of salmon declines--dams, loss of habitat, and pollution. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should not allow the senseless and wanton killing of these birds. Rather, the Corps and its partners should review and rebuild the entire approach to avian predation by cormorants and other species at a regional scale, including the Columbia River basin and beyond.The Audobon Society opposes this permit and wants a new study of all issues.