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

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I am very much in favour of the policy to allow hunters to shoot cormorants. We cottage on Lake Nipissing and these birds have depleted the small game fish of perch, blue gills and rock bass to dangerously low levels. Read more

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

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It is high time that a cormorant cull is instituted in Ontario. These birds are invasive and they do effect the fish populations. The Kawartha Lakes have been facing declining walleye populations for years and the cormorants are the largest problem in my opinion, among other problems. Read more

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

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As a hunter of more than 40 years I believe this will be horrible for the image of hunters. I realize there are species that are considered non game and nuisance species and are killed without expectation of consumption. Read more

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

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The government's hunting proposal is gratuitous, irresponsible, and cruel. In particular, the proposal to allow hunters to kill 50 cormorants per day could feasibly permit the eradication of the entire species from the Great Lakes in a single year, assuming below average hunter engagement. Read more

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

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I recently heard John Yakabuski, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, interviewed about creating a hunting season for Double-Crested Cormorants (CBC, Ontario Today, December 21). His lack of knowledge was notable. Read more

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

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It’s about time. I have witnessed first hand the damage done by cormorants on islands in lake superior. The dead vegetation, the fouled soul and the amount if small fish they consume. They destroy one island and then move to another. I’ll biy s hunting licence.

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

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The regulatory impact statement of this proposal reads: "The anticipated environmental consequences of the proposal are expected to be neutral." and "The anticipated economic consequences of the proposal are expected to be neutral but depend on levels of hunter participation." Read more

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

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As an avid outdoorsman, and father of two young’s boys who also love spend a great deal of time in the beautiful Ontario wilderness, it is very clear to me that population control measures need to introduced. Read more

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

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Why would we allow such cruelty as a government. Why can't we just live as one with nature. We fought so hard to bring this population back into healthy numbers and now we want to destroy it again. Why? For sport? For something to do? Read more

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