Cormorants are part of a…

Cormorants are part of a natural ecosystem.
Anglers are not part of the natural ecosystem and catering to them on unscientific grounds is not useful to our province's progress or to our province's economics.
Allowing people go around and shoot cormorants in order to reduce their numbers to reduce competition for anglers makes no sense.
Allowing people to shoot cormorants (ie animals) and let them spoil is not hunting in any sense of the word, it is closer to serial killing.
** This topic is likely something that could be brought to court and would waste my tax dollars, just so some people can go and randomly shoot animals. ** i don't want my tax dollars wasted.
This very idea is an embarrassment to Ontario, we will be the laughing stock of the world and be referred to as backcountry idiots. It will likely reduce tourism.

This proposal is cruel and will
-Leave thousands of dependent baby birds to die of overheating, hypothermia, thirst or starvation, a cruelty that would be illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada, but is inevitable given that it takes both parents to tend the eggs and young.
- Create health and environmental hazards from the large numbers of rotting birds.
- Result in increased gun use and subsequent disturbance, particularly in cottage country during family vacation time.
- Cater to the simple minded people in the pro-gun lobby who just want to shoot to maim and kill and thus promotes violence and irresponsible use of guns.
- Push the cormorant back to endangered status, necessitating full protection
- The Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Common Tern, Caspian Tern, Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Blue Herons, and Great Egrets will also be disturbed during their breeding season by this hunting activity.
- Encourage the belief, contrary to all scientific evidence, that cormorants are responsible for depletions of game and commercial fish species. We need to educate people about the environment, not mislead them.
- Encourage stress and divisiveness between the non-hunting majority and the pro-hunting minority by appealing to those who most want to kill animals, without regard to suffering.
- Equate, on the national stage, Ontario with the least-well educated and most corrupt regions of the world who, also, allow native species to be killed in non-sustainable numbers.
Study after study has demonstrated double-crested cormorants do not seriously affect fish stocks. They mostly eat species of fish of no commercial value and not favoured by sporting anglers.

please do not proceed with 013-4124 .
thank you.