To review the salient facts:…

To review the salient facts: this hunting proposal is scientifically baseless. The proposal to allow a 50 cormorant per day bag limit for hunters means that if only 1 in 100 Ontarian hunters each killed 50 cormorants over *an entire year*, this would result in about 350,000 dead cormorants. The entire Great Lakes population is only 250,000 birds and the global population is only 2 million. DCCs are native species to ON and have just recently recovered from poisoning, hunting, and habitat degradation of the last century. Contrary to the assertions of many hunters and anglers, the species is not overabundant: in fact, their numbers are still less than what they were before European colonization of the continent.

This species has a right to live and eat on its native land and water. The myopic special interests of some hunters and anglers should not dictate environmental policy.