#ERO 013-4124 (BAD IDEA)…

#ERO 013-4124 (BAD IDEA) Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

As an Ontario Resident and Taxpayer, I object to the proposal to open a hunting season for double-crested cormorants:

- The proposal is not science-based. Impact on fish stocks and suggested quantity limits are anecdotal.
- There is evidence that indicates cormorants help control non-native fish species, like the round goby.
- The bird is inedible for humans and therefore the meat would be wasted.
- Hunting without the intention of securing the meat would encourage stray firing, wounded birds, and dead bodies floating in the water and along the shoreline.
- Ontarians take their drinking water from the Great Lakes and this proposal would contaminate the water (birds, bullets, blood, trash from hunters)
- The proposed hunting season conflicts with the cormorants nesting season.

This proposal is a bad idea and caters to the blood thirsty. Should science prove the need, there are other ways of controlling bird populations without firing guns.

It is wrong to kill animals for fun.