Bag limit "no"
Season timing and length "no"
Disposal of carcasses "retrieve and remove"
Are additional management efforts required? "Oil Eggs and remove nests"
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To allow a hunting season this long and this high a limit is simply nuts.
There are lots of people complaining about Canada Geese in parks, beaches and golf courses.
Are we going to shoot 50 a day? What about the gulls at a MacDonald's?
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As the proposal affects a native species, the cull seems like an economic convenience for those negatively affected by a thriving cormorant population. Perhaps this is a case in which humans should adapt to the natural environment in which we live, rather than adapting the environment to us.
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Certainly, I believe that the cormorants should be controlled. Hunting would be my primary way of controlling the birds, as well as oiling the nests during nesting periods but the latest may not be as efficient as hunting the birds.
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I fully support having a tool to deal with an out of control cormorant population however do think there should be season adjustments from that as proposed.
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I live on the west arm of Lake Nipissing and am extremely dismayed at the proposal to cull cormorants.
A few things were immediately evident to me as I read through the proposal.
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I am not a hunter but support allowing hunting of cormorants to reduce their numbers as they do considerable harm to the environment. Their droppings are acid killing trees and plants. this destroys habitat for other birds. Their numbers have become out of control.
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I am in favor of a cormarant cull, they are destructive and over populated. Please ensure an economic, enviromentally friendly and hunter friendly disposal process is included.
I have witnessed entire shoreline islands with trees and ground cover killed by the toxic effect of bird guano. The islands were inhabited by colonies of cormorants. In Georgian Bay, cormorants have been aggressively reducing small fish, on which salmon, whitefish and trout depend.
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I am very strongly opposed to the proposal to allow a hunting season on cormorants. The population is stabilizing and is serving as prey for eagles and other predators, who will be disadvantaged in their own recovery if the numbers of cormorants suddenly plummet.
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I have seen first hand the effects of the fast growing population of Cormorants on the Ottawa river near Rockland On. Growing up around here, we never saw any cormorants. This tells me that they are expanding their range and fast!
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I am sad to say I find this very disappointing, that a species that was almost decimated by humans, finally repopulated itself to earlier, or below earlier levels, now has been deemed an inconvenience by anglers, fishers, as well as homeowners on the lakes.
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Looks like a great idea... controlled hunting is a great way to keep populations healthy... That being said the decision must be made using good peer reviewed science... 50 a day with no cap seems excessive... Would like to know how the ministry came to this number.
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This is a fantastic idea! I live along Lake Erie and I have watched this birds population density grow exponentially in number. They are rapidly decreasing the biodiversity of this region. A season would definitely help to keep them in check.
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I am for a hunting season for these birds.
Ever since the moratorium on the species, the population has exploded and I have observed the devastation they have caused.
A reasonable limit and time period for a hunt is reasonable.
I am against the culling of cormorants. It is a thinly disguised effort to get the vote of hunters. The proposed number of killings daily is preposterous. The birds will be wiped out in a very short time.
Please reconsider this or at the very least reduce the allowed number of killings allowed.
I have spent many years transporting biologists around the Eastern end of Lake Ontario to a number of islands off Kingston, Ont. , specifically to study Cormorants. I have counted nests; and chick numbers; banded birds; measured and weighed them; utilized radio telemetry tracking, etc.
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