The present Ordinance implements the Federal Nature Protection Act of 29 July 2009 (BGBl. I p. 2542). Article 1 of the above-mentioned Ordinance authorizes the hunting of cormorants taking into account the considerable damage they inflict on fish stocks. The text consists of 8 articles as follows: General approval of killing of cormorants (1); Local limitations (2); Temporal limitations (3); Persons entitled to hunt cormorants (4); Persons entitled to hunt cormorants in fishing ponds (5); Restrictions imposed by nature protection authorities (6); Further exceptions and exemptions (7); Duty to report (8).