This bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to create regional management plans for controlling double-crested cormorants within six months of enactment. The plans, developed with regional flyway councils, will establish permitted hunting methods, time periods, and who can legally take cormorants—including state and tribal agencies, hunters, and private lake and pond managers. The frameworks must maintain sustainable cormorant populations while addressing harms to fisheries, vegetation, other bird species, water quality, and endangered species, with particular consideration of impacts to human health and safety. The bill requires population surveys every five years starting five years after enactment and mandates the management plans be updated every five years based on survey results. No specific funding is allocated in the text, but the Secretary of the Interior and Regional Flyway Councils are tasked with developing and overseeing these management efforts in coordination with state and tribal fish and game agencies.
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