Cormorants seldom nest alone…

Cormorants seldom nest alone, by themselves, in single species colonies. In Ontario, they almost always nest with one or more of the following groups of colonial water birds: gulls, terns herons, egrets and pelicans. These species are protected by federal migratory bird legislation or provincial legislation.
Discharging shotguns at or near cormorant nesting colonies, including shooting at flying birds and shooting adults on their nests – both in trees and on the ground, would be an enormous disturbance to all of these co-habiting species. It is almost a certainty that these protected species will be accidentally killed. Please reconsider his proposal on humanitarian reasons alone