The Government’s proposal…

The Government’s proposal will have numerous terrible consequences to wildlife and natural ecosystems in Ontario including the wholesale, uncontrolled, impossible to monitor, slaughter of cormorants.

The Government's concerns about too many cormorants, depleted fish stocks and environmental damage are largely anecdotal complaints and unsubstantiated claims that were debunked long ago.

Cormorants are not overabundant, their numbers are relatively modest, have stabilized and are dropping in some areas. The entire North American double-crested cormorant population is estimated to be less than about 125,000 birds in the lower Great Lakes.

The Ontario governments proposal is not science or fact based. It is emotional and political and could result in wiping out cormorants in most of the province.