Don't do this. This proposal…

Don't do this. This proposal will set a precedent whereby, for the first time ever in the history of Canadian game management, it will be legal to allow game to be wasted. Hunters will be allowed to shoot from stationary boats in cottage country, even during the height of summer tourism.
There is no funding to monitor the killing. Entire breeding colonies of cormorants and co-inhabiting species such as Great Blue Herons, egrets and, in the north, American White Pelicans, could be eliminated. Since both parents care for young, untold thousands of nestlings will die of thirst, malnutrition, hypothermia and predation. This proposal discredits decades of understanding basic ecology and the importance of apex predators to biodiversity. Protected colonies such as the one at Tommy Thompson Park, which are humanely and effectively managed on science-based principles, will face increased pressure. According to the Canadian Wildlife Service, cormorants feed primarily on small, largely non-commercial, shallow-water fish (e.g., non-native rainbow smelt and alewife). Only a small percentage of their diet consists of “sport fish,” which is one of the excuses given for the hunt. Don't allow the mass-slaughter/near extermination of cormorants simply to give hunters something else to kill for fun, or to appease some waterfront property owners. There's nothing good about this idea. It's cruel and barbaric.