This proposal flies in the…

This proposal flies in the face of Canada's long-standing reputation as a protector of natural resources and wildlife. There is no earthly reason to allow hunting that wastes the catch. NONE.

As a Canadian citizen, an Indigenous person and a proponent of responsible resource management, I object strenuously to the proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario.

This is a scientifically baseless proposal and discredits decades of understanding basic ecology and the importance of apex predators to biodiversity. 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.

A proposal to endanger one species for another species to sport fish is morally reprehensible, irresponsible and plain, bad science.

Don't do it.