To Whom it my concern, it is…

To Whom it my concern, it is my personal opinion that this proposed season on the double breasted cormorant would be a tremendous betterment to the fisheries and the environment.
I am an avid fisherman in the area of Port Elgin and Southampton Ontario and have the devastation to what was at one time a beautiful luscious island with lots and lots of greenery. As of the past 8 to 10 years it has been reduced to a bunch of dead limbs and dead vegetation. I have also seen them in the harbour area nd the shallow waters outside of that gorging themselves on various breeds of fish including game fish like small bass and perch.

They are also always in the Saugeen river around Southampton feeding on what I believe are the smolts from the rainbow trout and salmon the spawn in the same river. I also understand that they have moved inland to numerous small lakes and are doing the very same thing.

So in summary I believe that an open season would be great benefit to the environment