I am writing today to strongly opposed the new proposal regarding cormorants hunting and listing them as "Game Birds". The opinion of small groups of people with a biased opinion on cormorants does not justify the mass killing of cormorants.
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Bird populations play a crucial role in maintaining the diversity of, and ability of an ecosystem to sustain larger populations of native species including the fish of concern, plant and insect populations.
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The proposal to establish a hunting season for Double-crested cormorant does not explain to the public that this is a native species which is only now recovering from decades of decline.
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Double - crested cormorants have an important ecological impact just like every animal. We cannot begin to kill 50 a day for nine months a year, for their population is already lower than what it used to be.
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I understand that the Environmental Registry plan to designate cormorants as a "game" species so anyone with an outdoors card and a small game license would be allowed to kill up 1500 a month each or 14,000 per year and leave their bodies to rot.
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I completely disagree with this proposal to increase the number of animals who can be hunted in Ontario. We are in the midst of an absolutely horrendous environmental crisis defined by climate change and loss of biodiversity.
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I am completely opposed to the proposed cormorant hunt in Ontario. All evidence indicates that the cormorant population is at a sustainable level. They eat fish and nest in trees, and may be a minor inconvenience to some people.
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I feel that disallowing fish finders would have a bigger impact on improving the fish populations than culling cormorants. As well, being diving species, I am pretty sure the cormorants viability as a game meat would be pretty poor.
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Get your act together. Co-existence is the answer. We need to take care of nature and in return nature will take care of us. There are always better, more sustainable solutions. Wake up it's 2019. Make us proud yo he Ontarians and BETTER YET CANADIANS!!!!!!
The Double-crested Cormorant is a beautiful and tenacious native seabird of Ontario and of North America in general (Figure 4). They have survived centuries of hunting, persecution, and poisoning by humans.
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This is abhorrent! 50 murdered birds per person a day?! Murdering wildlife! Addressing the endangered species, and not enlisting a wild animal to ultimately end up on this list would be a better use of the government's time and money!
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I consider this proposal to be unnecessary, extremely inhumane, and environmentally irresponsible. The double-crested cormorant is a native, wildlife species. It is not a game bird and shouldn't be treated as one.
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I am appalled at our provincial government's proposed change to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act that will designate Double Crested Cormorants as a game species. The hunting season which runs from Mar 15-Dec 31, covers the nesting period of these birds.
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This is NO valid reason to justify the proposal to establish a hunting season for the double-crested cormorants in Ontario.
ALL birds are critical for the environment.
Please reconsider this proposal. We have far too many species that are near extinction. You proposal to open a hunt to eradicate the cormorants is not an environmental step. I think a lot of ideas that these birds are so destructive are incorrect.
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As an ontario resident and natyre lover, i do not support the proposal to establish a hunting season for double breasted cormorants. I feel that the proposed actio would be detrimental to the ecosystem and would undermine responsible conservation practices.
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To think that you can limit the population of cormorants with a hunting season is naïve at best. Having people with guns for most of the year in sensitive aquatic habitats is not a good idea. There are hundreds of other bird species that may be negatively impacted by hunting.
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I strongly oppose the proposed changes to the legislation to create a cormorant hunting season. Double crested cormorants are a native species whose population is at best stable. They do not negatively affect fish populations.
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I do not support the hunting proposal regarding cormorants.
This is a native species who was recently endangered.
It is short sighted to meddle with nature, as humans have caused significant damage to the ecosystem and animals which need our protection not prosecution.
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