A game bird? “Game” is eaten…

A game bird? “Game” is eaten. Double-crested Cormorant meat is not in the culinary traditions of the vast majority of Canadians, nor is it likely to be: The recipe I have seen calls for the bird to be skinned, all fat removed, the meat then marinated for at least two days, and finally made into a stew which one 2005 commentator, supporting a reintroduction of Cormorant to the menu, calls “a pond of exotic, dark wildness, the meat as black as the delicious whale stew I ate with a fisherman and his family in the Faeroes last year.”* So for some few adventurous Canadians, a new culinary option. But with a daily bag limit of fifty? The stew recipe calls for breasts of two Cormorant, not fifty. The Government’s proposal, disingenuously framed as a regulated hunt for new game, deliberately seeks nothing short of wholesale licensed slaughter of an erstwhile protected native species. I would definitely support an allowed hunt for those whose diets depend on country food. But as a blanket measure for all Ontario hunters, I am opposed.
*(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3614362/Cormorant-ste…)