Killing of Mute Swans in Chesapeake Bay Halted
From Times Wire Reports
Maryland has agreed to stop shooting mute swans, a nonnative bird that state officials contend is destroying the Chesapeake Bay habitat.
A spokesman for Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said the state will honor a request from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to suspend the shootings, which began April 25.
The federal agency had issued a permit allowing the state to kill up to 1,500 of the roughly 3,600 swans in the bay but reconsidered after the New York-based Fund for Animals sued Tuesday.
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