I am very familiar with the…

I am very familiar with the cormorant problem in Ontario. Muskrat Island in Sturgeon Lake is very heavily populated by this bird in the summer months. Due to the small size of this island the large flock has completely devastated the vegetation with their excrement. I can only imagine the detrimental effects their foraging has on the fish population of this lake. While I am not a hunter and do not condone unwise management of birds and other wildlife, I would be strongly in favour of the province’s proposed hunting regulations on the cormorants. I would hope that this process would assist in curbing this destruction of our environment by the overpopulation of this species of bird.