I'm appalled that this…

I'm appalled that this proposal would make it legal for "hunters" to blast away at cormorants essentially every day during the non-winter months without limit -- 50 birds a day, every day. The ability to shoot from a stationary boat could mean that every lake and river with a cormorant population will become a shooting gallery, to the detriment of other species as well as the safety and enjoyment of other waterway users.

I'm also very troubled that this is apparently motivated by "concerns expressed by some groups" that cormorants have been "detrimental to fish populations, island forest habitats, other species and aesthetics." What does "concerns" mean? I doesn't sound like "scientific evidence", the latter being the only basis you should be using. This just sounds like some cottage owners don't like the look of cormorants and want the right to shoot them into extinction, and the Ontario government is giving them the thumbs-up.