Hi, I am a waterfowl hunter…

Hi, I am a waterfowl hunter. I think a cormorant hunt would be a great idea and I think 50 a day is fair. What people don’t realize it’s hunters including myself rarely shoot a limit of ducks in a day which is 6 per day. So no, a single hunter will not kill 14000 in a year that is just absurd to even think that. Hunting is not as easy as the public tends to think. Waterfowl and these birds see a lot more that what humans can (they can see ultraviolet). So I agree with a hunt but i think the government should be consulting, Ducks Unlimited, Delta waterfowl and OFAH on this matter as well as the mnr. The population has gone crazy. I’ve hunted on lake simcoe and seen thousands in just a couple hours and you can watch the in their hundreds diving wiping out populations of bait fish. For some the comments where people have said if man is involved we end up destroying their habit, is just false. As of January 2017 Ducks unlimited alone has conserved 13,902,792 acres in North America, 6,439,113 acres of that in Canada and have influenced a total of 157,660,148 acres in total across North America and in 1901 there were few ducks mainly due to habit loss not hunting and now today there are over 46,000,000. I get why you are asking the public but I have seen a lot of uneducated comments on this from people who have probably never hunted, never bought a tag, put time and work into conservation, been out in the field watching these birds year round or been impacted by these birds. So as I stated at the top I am all for this hunting season.

Proud member of Ducks unlimited Canada, delta waterfowl and OFAH.