Cormorants have a place in the environment of Ontario. They are native birds. The ecological system has a way of controlling it's own populations. I believe that a cull on the cormorants is irresponsible.
Cormorants are destroying an ever growing number of islands throughout the 1000 Islands unless they are reduced more islands will be destroyed as well the food chain for game fish will be negatively impacted.
50 cormorants a day will be a good start.
Yes to a cormorant hunt. I've seen the local loon population almost completely gone while the cormorants increase every year. I will join the hunt.
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Where is the scientific evidence to show they are over-populating. What other options are available to control their actions. who will hunt them if they are inedible, spend time, money and gas. Will a hunt be effective. Ecologists disagree with this hunt, the population has stabilised recently.
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I am totally in favour of reducing the cormorant population by any means possible. These birds were encouraged to nest in the Burlington Bay area by building nesting poles at the east end of the bay. Since then the population has exploded resulting in a mess and a bad smell.
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I am in favour of controlling the cormorant population.
I am from the Kingston area and have noticed a significant increase in cormorants and have also noticed significant negative effects on the islands as well as fish population.
Hunting should be a means for assisting someone to eat and/or clothe oneself. It should not be a means whereby to cull species. Mother Nature is responsible for that.
If these birds are hunted, the bullets and remaining carcass will litter and create more waste and environmental imbalance.
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We are disgusted that our Province is proposing to allow the wholesale, uncontrolled, impossible to monitor, slaughtering of cormorants.
My understanding is that concerns that there are too many are largely just anecdotes, complaints and unsubstantiated claims that were debunked long ago.
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This species of bird serves no useful purpose and is not native to the lakes of central and northern Ontario. Over the years we have shot a number of these birds at the cottage because they make a mess of the trees and rocks. We have found their stomachs full of small minnows from 2-4inches.
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I absolutely agree with the Governments Proposal. We own a property on Wolfe Lake in eastern Ontario. There is a growing poplulation of Cormorants on this relatively small spring feed lake (2200 acres).
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I wish to strongly support the bill to allow hunting of Cormorants. Here in Belleville we continue to see increased damage to the small islands in the Bay of Quinte. On Snake Island the trees have been completely destroyed, leaving a putrid stinking mass.
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As both a hunter and angler in Ontario, I wholeheartedly support the proposal to put the cormorants on the hunting list. Tourism has suffered as a result of the dramatic decline in game fish populations with the cormorants return to our lake in Northern Ontario about 20 yrs ago.
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While Cormorants in Ontario are a definite problem species`an open hunt of 50 birds daily seems excessive. What protections will be inplace to protect co-nesting species?
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This is very political proposal aimed at pleasing hunters and anglers. Cormorans are a native Ontario bird species that play a critical role in the ecosystem. This is a very ignorant approach to nature, just like “culling” horses and wolves because of requests from rangers and farmers.
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