Comment
This proposal is obscene.
1. Allowing a mass slaughter of anything should never be permitted. A 10 month season with no bag limit enables each hunter to take 15,000 birds (50 x 30 x 10). So 100 hunters could take over a million birds. This is a slaughter, not a hunt.
2. The MNR's own proposal admits that the population of Cormorant has peaked and is stabilized, possibly declining. So there is no need to slaughter them as nature will obviously seek its own balance without any need for intervention.
3. Finally, the proposal seems to be motivated by the desire to appease commercial fishing in the Great Lakes - yet has no territorial limits. So even if one were to accept the motivation as warranted, which I do not, it is preposterous for it to justify slaughter of Cormorants across Ontario.
In summary this proposal is offensive and should be discarded.
Submitted December 21, 2018 12:26 AM
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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario
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