I concur with most of the…

I concur with most of the proposed changes. The limit may be a bit extreme. I see the proposed regulation changes regarding motor boats as a necessity to effectively hunt cormorants. As the cormorant roosts and nests on treed bluffs along the shoreline and small treed islands, there is no other way to access them during the hunt other than by boat. I have a cottage on a lake trout and bass lake in Halliburton County. About 7-8 years ago, I noticed 2 cormorants inhabiting the lake mid summer. Now there are no less than 30 by late summer roosting along the south shoreline. They frequent the small islands on the lake during the day and smaller brook trout and splake lakes nearby and the smell is extremely repulsive. Because our lake is only about 300 hectares, the amount of cormorants is having an obvious affect on the lake. I used to be able to snorkel along any shoreline and see numerous small mouth bass. Now there are significantly less. Because of the special strain of lake trout in this lake and the natural lack of bait fish, the Lakers main food source is small bugs and larvae. The larger lake trout consume smaller small mouth bass. With the amount of bass being taken by the cormorants, the large lake trout population will suffer. I am not able to say if the bird is targeting the lake trout themselves.
I am also concerned that the proposed season for Central Ontario is too short. The cormorants start showing up to our lake in late July and by late September/early October they seem to have max'd out.