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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I do not agree with an open season on culling the Cormorant bird in Ontario. I have spent the last 60 summers in a near north Ontario, Provincial Park- living on a medium size lake. Cormorants appeared around 25 years ago. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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cormorants are very attractive birds for photography. Cormorants are a key part of ecosystem. Certainly they cause trouble to certain areas where they nest in high density. It is a common idea to dislike the birds for many imaginary reasons. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Although cormorants have been observed to have a high population recently I do not think that allowing the hunting of 50 a day is an appropriate response. This species was nearing extinction a while ago and is currently making a comeback. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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We cannot just go around and hunt animals because they are annoying to some people. I listened conversations on the radio today and mentioned that mother nature is already working on them, bald eagle population is also grown and hunting. We need to protect the birds, not hunt them. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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There should be a hunting season for these birds. I will likely be a small part of the population control needed. I would bet the people I hunt with would likely only dedicate a couple of trips to trying to hunt them because summer is a busy time and hunting is very expensive. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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The cormorants are destroying acres and acres of trees and greatly affecting the nesting areas of other birds around them. They are polluting the water below the trees they are killing where they roost. To say nothing of the fish they are consuming and other animals they are affecting. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I’ve resided on Balsam lake for the past 5 summers. Initially the cormorant population appeared to be centred around one small island called Hogg Island. They have absolutely destroyed a little island off to the side of this island but it was sort of interesting to watch these birds at the time. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I highly condemn this proposal and ask that it be stopped. This open season proposal needs to be researched further and should not continue forward as it is written. We need more information and further proof of the cormorant's supposedly negative impact on our ecosystem. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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This proposal is madness. If even 10 % of Ontario hunters killed the proposed 50 birds a day limit the entire population of Cormorants in the Great Lakes would be wiped out in less than a year. Just to pander to the greed of the sport fishing community. Read more

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I am a 64 year old Ontario resident, and have hunted and fished in Ontario since my childhood. I hunt waterfowl annually and have participated in the Environment Canada Migratory Bird Harvest Survey for several years. Read more

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