Double-Crested Cormorant may…

Double-Crested Cormorant may not be my most favourite bird but it nests and breeds in areas with other migrating colonial nesters. I would not favour an open hunting season on DCCO as I believe hunting would be unsafe from boats in particular, and for those of us who enjoy being out in nature along shorelines and waterways especially during spring and early summer. Hunting during a season when these birds are setting up in breeding colonies would be completely detrimental to other colony nesters that also set up breeding territory nearby, such as the Great Blue Herons, Green Herons, Great Egrets and several gull species including Herring and Ring-billed. Hunting could also have a detrimental effect on eco-tourism business in the Great Lakes and surrounding waterways. Those of us who are concerned about the environment we live in and hand down to coming generations, belong to a large demographic which will vote to protect the environment if government is shortsighted in these matters. I would prefer to leave Nature to look after this issue. Thank you for the opportunity to voice my opinion.