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Hello...
Shocked to learn of this proposal..
Opening a broad province wide hunting season on Double Crested Cormorants is not a very thoughtful or scientific option to deal with questions of Species impact.
A complaint by concerned landowners and some fishers on the Birds impacts resulting in this Draconian solution is deeply flawed.
The proposal also is unclear as to the limits of the season with a summer hunt of up to 50 birds a day permitted in the Central Zone. Could not identify where this is .. I see North, South East, South West..
A summer hunt around Toronto where residents and recreation boaters are close, is no answers to the bird's possible impact.
I understand The area adjacent to Toronto Harbour has a sizable cormorant population. Will there be a hunt there?
This from the Federation of Hunters and anglers...
"In principle, the government is planning to use hunters as a tool to reduce cormorant populations and mitigate their impacts on terrestrial habitats, aquaculture, and property values."
This suggests throwing a bone to an interest group without serious scientific support..
Is that a good idea?
Please consider the thoughtful contributions of environmentalists and scientist. None of their reports endorse or embrace this proposed law..
Give a boy a hammer and everything starts looking like a nail applies here.. 50 birds a day over such a long season, with no realistic plan for body diosposal is not convincingly thoughtful, effective policy.
I have read serious rebuttals to the proposed changes to the law and see no utility in going forward for any "real scientific reasons." The motivation for this Draconian "Solution" is unclear.
There is an important change to the act based on a feeling, then to create a hunt for a protected specie, with a bag limit that is very large, with no discernible scientific monitoring , how is this even sensible. Research the real problems, look for professional ecologically-scientifically filtered possible strategies, then try again. Leaving a possibility of a huge cull of this bird to hunters where there is no market for the meat does not create confidence in this act..
Please rethink this shortsighted proposal...
Submitted January 3, 2019 1:45 PM
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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario
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