The proposed open season on Double-crested Cormorants is shocking in its cruelty towards a native species and dismaying in its lack of care for the environment.
It should not proceed, for the following reasons:
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Let me get this right. These birds were hunted and poisoned to endangered status in Ontario. But through legislation and protection they came back. Now you want to do it again because fisherman and cottage goers complained. Seriously. Shame on you. Shame.
I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed cormorant cull. The proposed number of 50 birds per day is obscene and would decimate the population. I thought we as a society were against extinction?
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To whom it may concern, I strongly believe that there needs to be population control of comerants. I’ve seen first hand the rate of increase in population. If the hopes are they’ll predate on gobies instead of bait fish like aliwifes we may be out of luck.
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The cormorants population was almost pushed to extinction due human causes. This indigenous species just started to count a normal numbers of birds. No scientific study has had time to seriously predict the impact hunting would have on the specie.
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This proposed slaughter of comorants is wrong. Politicians have to stop messing around with nature and thinking they know what's best for our natural habitat. All native birds are necessary to balance our ecosystem and these birds are no exception. They are vital to keep the balance.
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I am not a professional when it comes to the the wildlife and the environment but an ordinary citizen who respects all the living ... humans, animals, birds ... anything that lives and breathes especially ones that cannot speak for themselves.
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To whom it may concern,
I am opposed to the proposed cormorant hunting season as a hunter, conservationist and bird enthusiast. I am a resident of Ontario.
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I am against the length of the proposed hunting season and don't believe the hunters will bother collecting that many carcasses. Killing 50 cormorants a day seems like a plan to completely eliminate this breed of bird. Senseless.
These birds are inedible and thus should not be considered game birds. The numbers that could be culled, given the allotment per hunter, are very large over the proposed hunting season and certainly will adversely affect the sustainability of the species.
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This is an outstanding and overdue idea. Cormorants not only impact valuable fish stocks but they also defile the habitat in the Great Lakes. They have destroyed trees and plant life, which starts a ripple affect in the environment.
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Very deeply disturbed with this issue.
1. Native species that is recovering from decimated levels in 1960s and 1970s.
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I am opposed to the establishment of a proposed Double-Crested Cormorant (DCCO) hunting season for the following below reasons. I should like to add I am not opposed to hunting and feel it has a legitimate place as a sport.
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I know that there has been and will be many debates on issue of the cormorants. I believe at one point these birds were going extinct and that is why the hunting of these birds stopped or I could be wrong on this but I did hear this multiple times in different discussions.
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I have a cottage on Georgian Bay and cormorants are a bird we see frequently. I think it's cruel and unnecessary to establish an open hunting season on these birds!
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I disagree with hunting cormorants and ask that they be protected. Cormorants are not overabundant in the Great Lakes. In fact, their numbers are modest, now stabilized and are dropping in many areas.
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The slaughter of animals native to this region is not an effective wildlife management policy. The onus is on policy makers to demonstrate beyond a doubt that these birds are negatively impacting the region's biome (eg.
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