Your preface acknowledges …

Your preface acknowledges that the population of cormorants has ‘stabilized or decreased slightly’ since the early 2000’s, so there is no justiable reason for this change in policy.
What you propose, numerous hunters killing up to 50 birds a day from their watercraft throughout the cotaging and tourist seasons, would shatter the peaceful summer days and threaten the people on the lakes. It makes no sense to permit such activity when people are swimming in nearby waters and cruising in boats just beyond where the birds are. This is courting a disaster, and is likely to cause easily anticipated harm to the tourism that supports our region.
Even if there was a need for this hunting for reasons of popularization control, which there is not, it would only make sense to have a season in months other than May to September!
As presently written, this proposal is fatally flawed, serving no environmental interest and threatening the financial basis upon which Ontario summer tourism and vacationing relies.