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

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Please DO NOT allow double creasted cormorants to be hunted! If they are hunted, they coiuld be extinct in Ontario in one season!!! This type of hunting is simply not necessary. Please DO NOT allow this proposal to become law. Read more

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

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I live on the shore on Bay of Quinte. The cormorants move from island to island after killing all the trees. Anyone living near their nesting site would be driven mad by the noise as they nest in hundreds. Read more

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

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I have worked with the Ministry Natural Resources in the past on a Fisheries Management plan for both Lake Nipissing and Zone 11 in a consultative process. The process did spend some time in discussions about the Double Crested Cormorant and its effect on fish species and habitat of Lake Nipissing. Read more

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

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Can we please review the necessity of this. It seems our powers to be always want to kill to solve a problem. This has to stop. I notice you have other studies going on for species at risk - why would you want another bird to join that list. I do not see anything good coming out of this. Read more

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

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I strongly oppose an open hunting season on cormorants. These native birds were saved from extinction and now the Ontario Government is calling for their eradication because of unproven accounts that say they eat too many fish. This is ridiculous and unscientific. Read more

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

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Myself and every single angler and hunter I know would like to see a hunting season for cormorants. Its simple, the government of Ontario has got it right. The damage they do and their population is out of control. Canadian geese are in the same boat as well. A cull is long overdue. Read more

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

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Living on a lake with cormorants in the Kingston area, I am very concerned about the public safety aspect of allowing massive hunting during the summer. There will be many people swimming, boating and fishing around the cormorants and the hunters. Read more

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

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I am not in favour of hunting these birds. While they may be enjoying the fish, we fish not to survive as they do, but for sport. We do not starve if we don’t catch as many fish. This is an important difference. They are just recovering as a species, and now we want to hunt them.

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I am deeply upset by this proposal. Once again, it is politically-driven without due consideration of the science and views of the experts. I listened to the Minister today, and with all due respect, i thought I had tuned in to "This is That" by mistake. Read more

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In my view the cormorant proposal should not proceed. You are proposing to artificially reduce a native species to Ontario (cormorants) to reduce their impact on a non-native artificially maintained species (stocked salmonids). This is very poor so-called wildlife management. Read more

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This is preposterous. Stop trying to control nature, let it run its course. The bag limit is totally unreasonable. If science can see that there is a natural limiter coming, let nature be in control of its own populations. As soon as humans think we need to intervene we extricate species.

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