This is a REALLY bad idea…

This is a REALLY bad idea and I hope it does not pass. If it has been been scientically determined that cormorants are a nuisance species and that measures should be taken to protect the balance of nature and not just those species that hunters and fishermen desire then do so by sterilizing eggs or other humane means.
Encouraging people with guns to "fun " shoot up to 50 cormorants a day and just allow the meat to spoil is reminiscent of the wildlife "management" practices of the 18th and 19th century when we lost the passenger pigeon and nearly lost forever the American Bison and several other wildlife species. Have we not learned anything from the past? What is the MNR thinking? Do we really want to encourage people to believe that they are good stewards of the land by the wanton slaughter of a wildlife species. Many wildfowl hunters have a difficult time determining ducks from geese and now the MNR wants to allow them to go about shooting and killing 50 cormorants a day. This is not good wildlife management unless one believes that the practices of the 19th and early 20th centuries were desirable.
MNR start doing what our taxes pay you to do . Hire more Conservation Officers and wildlife managers and manage our wildlife and fish resources responsibly and stop trying to save a buck by passing the responsibility to interest groups who in some cases are only interested in their particular self interest which are not in the best interest of the fish and wildlife resources.