Canada boosts magnificent…

Canada boosts magnificent landscapes and wonderful wildlife. I am shocked to learn about your plans to class cormorants as game thus allowing up to 14,000 of these wonderful birds to be killed per year.

From the information I have read from newspaper articles, scientists and wildlife organisations there is no substantial evidence to support this motion. Quite the opposite is true.

1. Research shows that other water birds benefit from the presence of cormorants. Taking them away will mean that other water birds will fill the vacated space. This disbalance may lead to other issues yet not thought of. Let nature regulate herself.

2. Apparently there is no way to kill cormorants humanely. Even controlled, organized culls in other regions have resulted in large numbers of injured and crippled birds being left to die of their wounds or starve to death, including nestlings. This is terrible and inhumane!

3. The diet of cormorants consists primarily of invasive fish, such as alewives and round gobies, as well as other non-commercial, non-forage species. So the fishing clubs are not presenting the correct facts?!

All over the world, wehumans are upsetting the balance of nature.

Please do not make cormorants a scapegoat for environmental problems they have nothing to do with. We need to stop overfishing oceans and lakes, and address other important issues like climate change, human overpopulation, habitat destruction which is tipping the balance of nature.

We are reaping what we have sewn!