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I am opposed to the proposed bill to allow open slaughter of cormorants in On. for the following reasons:
1) The d/c cormorant diet mainly consists of invasive species, "Round Gobies" which gobble up smallmouth bass and yellow perch eggs endangering the s/m bass population in On. Great Lakes Echo July 15 2010.
2) Perch mortality in 1995 due to cormorants, was less than 6.3% of total mortality. Like Huron Study, 2009, University of Michigan.
3) Canadian Federal Government tracked population of d/c cormorants and found in 2011 that population increases had levelled off. Tor StarJune 20 2016.
4) Allowing hunters to slaughter 50 birds each per day and dispose of the carcasses in the garbage or burying them in the ground is absurd.
Thank you for reading these concerns.