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I am submitting a comment regarding the change to a regulation for hunting the Double Crested Cormorant. (The Double-crested Cormorant is marked for death under the Government of Ontario's proposal to open a hunting season for this ecologically significant Great Lakes species.
Hunting proposal includes:
Hunted from boats
Dead cormorants left to rot
Hunted during vulnerable times
Condemning chicks to death by starvation/exposure
Potential eradication of a Great Lakes native species
Please comment by Jan 3, 2019
EBR Registration number 013-4124)

I have serious concerns regarding the length of the proposed hunt, the fact that dead birds are left to rot and that they would be hunted during nesting times leaving young birds to die of exposure and starvation. Wildlife preservation is also important and I believe that this proposal would decimate the population and could put them in the endangered category.

Please reconsider the long term consequences of this extended hunt before approving such a policy. I believe it is cruel and unnecessarily long.