The proposal is seriously…

The proposal is seriously lacking on many fronts.

I have read all the comments put together by various environmental groups and individuals and agree with all the arguments made by the various parties.

Some of the more striking arguments in my opinion for not allowing this proposal to go through at all are summarized below.

There is not enough information that would allow the reader to determine whether cormorants are, indeed, having a serious impact on the commercial fishery or the sports fishery or for that matter property owners. How many property owners, for example, complained that the cormorants were doing damage to their properties or impacting their enjoyment of their properties. Will the indiscriminate slaughter of 1000s of cormorants actually even solve these problems? The case hasn't been made.

Their seems to be an expectation that hunters will buy into this program. I spoke with a couple of hunters that are friends and they said they wouldn't be wasting any of their money or time [i.e. gas for boats, etc] to hunt cormorants. In fact they were upset that the government was expecting them to do their [the government's] "dirty-work"

In closing, I am totally opposed to the indiscriminate, widespread slaughter of cormorants as a way to solve a supposed problem that is not carefully defined. If there needs to be some control at a very local level other commenters have carefully laid out how this has been successfully done in other jurisdictions.