I do not believe that…

I do not believe that cormorants are a harmful species affecting fish stocks in the Great Lakes nor that they cause particularly problematic damage to shorelines. On the contrary, I see cormorants as a beautiful species and very much value their presence when I see them on the shores of Lake Ontario. I am a sailor and frequent hiker along the shores of the Lake and now that I live by the Lake I am on it, and by it and in it and I cherish all of the species who share the lake including the cormorants. I particularly do not think that virtually unrestricted hunting by the public is any sort of solution to a non-problem. If indeed cormorants are deemed to be in over abundance in any particular areas then a more scientific and less broadly applied solution should be found such as those applied to control numbers of Canada Geese in the past. Please do not permit the indiscriminate culling of this gorgeous species.

Yours respectfully