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

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Cormorants are filthy birds that take over wherever they decide, solid white excrement everywhere, eat all the fish, damage wetlands. There is no redeeming quality to these birds. Please,please open up hunting these birds to find a way to control them. Read more

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

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This Bill is completely unnecessary and wrong-headed on many levels. It essentially condones killing animals because we don't like the appearance of how they live. What's next? Shall we have open hunting season on other aesthetically-challenged creatures? Read more

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

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I oppose the proposal because it is not based on scientific evidence. It is much too broad; if a hunt is permitted, it should be for a short period each year and for a few years only and a few number of birds per hunter. Read more

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

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I spend a lot of time around Presqu'ile Point in the summer and see cormorants on the island in the bay. This area is out of bounds for humans because of unexploded ordinance left over from military testing long ago. Leave the cormorants alone. Read more

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

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The first thing that has to be done before any double crested cormorant cull is to determine scientically if they are actually having any effect on the fish populations of the Great Lakes or any other lakes. Read more

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

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Although your ministry normally does an excellent job of managing Ontario wildlife this proposal, if implemented, will do the exact opposite. It will allow the effective extermination of a species whose population has stabilized according to your records. Read more

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

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These things can clean out a gravel pit pond in a couple days. Smaller farm ponds in only hours. They are predators that have gotten completely out of control and we need to establish a hunting season, or as far as that goes, an open season to get things under control.

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

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I would like to express my strong opposition to the proposal to establish a hunting season on the Double-crested Cormorant - a bird that can't even be eaten! I became a Canadian 50 years ago and have watched the alarming decline of song birds and other species of birds in Canada over that period. Read more

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THE COMMENT I SUBMITTED THIS MORNING CONTAINED AN ERROR. PLEASE REPLACE IT WITH THE FOLLOWING. THANK YOU. To the Ministry of Environment: I am writing to voice my objection to the proposal to allow hunting of double-crested cormorants. Here are my reasons why: Read more

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

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As double crested cormorants are regularly viewed along the waterfront of our summer home in North Frontenac township, the creation of an open season for shooting such harmless waterfowl would create an unwelcome risk to the peaceful enjoyment of our home. Read more

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

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I strongly disagree with the Ontario Government's proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario. The practice of individuals and businesses getting their government to essentially 'declare war' on defenseless native species of birds and animals has to stop! Read more

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