Dear Sirs and Mesdames, I…

Dear Sirs and Mesdames,

I write to you regarding the proposed hunting season for double-crested cormorants.

The cormorant population is not currently capable of supporting the level of hunting proposed and my view, based on a review of the data we have on population trends, is that the proposed season will open hunting at levels that create a realistic danger of once again wiping out the double-crested cormorant from Ontario.

We must not endanger this recently-reestablished population with unsustainable bag numbers and too-long seasons under any circumstances, much less on the reintroduction of hunting.