I feel strongly that…

I feel strongly that classifying the double crested cormorant as a game bird and allowing a nine month season with a 50 bird bag a day will cause the number of cormorants to decline drastically and could lead to the complete eradication of the birds in Ontario. Allowing people to hunt from boats would mean that many species of birds, other than the cormorants, would be killed as cormorants nest with herons, egrets and pelicans. Cormorants diets include alewives and round gobies as well as non-commercial species. Mass killing of cormorants will damage the environment and disrupt natural ecosystem processes. Please do not allow this proposal to be passed.