I do not agree with the…

I do not agree with the proposal of establishing a hunting season of double crested cormorants. I live in the Aldershot area. We have had colonies of cormorants in my neighborhood since the 1990s. We also have a returning bald eagle and osprey population. They are the top predators of our end of the lake ecosystem. Their impact on islands is part of the functioning of the natural ecosystem, just as beavers impact the ecosystems of streams and forest fires do on boreal forest ecosystems.

I feel that Ontario government is proposing this hunt based on people feelings and not sound ecological science.