After being nearly wiped out…

After being nearly wiped out by human persecution and pesticide poisoning, the Double-crested cormorant has returned to the Great Lakes. Cormorants are a native Ontario water bird who have not yet recovered to historic population levels.

The majority of the cormorant diet is invasive species (Alewifes, Round gobles), non-commercial fish like sticlebacks and the extremely abundant Yellow Perch. Surveys of cormorant's stomach indicate that it included 0.5% of Lake Onatrio fish.

Also species of Great Blue Herons, Night Herons and Great Egrets have increased with the presence of the cormorant.

Your proposal to hunt and eradicate the Cormorant is not based on fact but pressure from incorrect myths by fisherman, which seems to rear it's ugly head every year. Why would you want to eradicate a native species?