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

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It’s about time..Mnr waited too long to take action...the damage to our fisheries is devastating...our government needs to stop bring in invasive species...all the Mnr does it cause harm to our resources...retrain Mnr to go back to its grassroots...managing the resource

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

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The proposed hunt of cormorants is a thinly-veiled slaughter of a native species. The proposed plan has not been created using verifiable data but appears to be based on complaints from a few affected individuals. Read more

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

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The damage caused by these birds whether killing fish species ( not just gobies as some would like to believe) and the damage to the trees and lands that they kill with their excrement must be controlled with a hunting season. Read more

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

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I agree 100% that something needs to be done about the cormorant population. This breed of bird does no good for the environment and it is a shame to see their destruction; I've seen vast stretches of shoreline totally destroyed, looking like a nuclear bomb landed. Read more

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

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According to Bird Studies Canada, “the proposed bag limit of 50 Double-crested Cormorants per day per hunter with no possession limit over a nine and a half month open season is exceptionally high, unsustainable, and without precedent under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act for its failure to a Read more

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As a sport fisherman I like to enjoy the scenery anytime I'm out fishing and when you come across whole islands that are dead or dying because of the cormorants sitting in the trees by the dozens or hundreds and their toxic waste kills everything below it really takes away from trying to enjoy your Read more

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

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Yes please allow this proposal to happen. The cormorants have destroyed islands of all trees and have wiped out pan fish and game fish drastically in the areas they inhabit. Please please allow this proposal to happen!!

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

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No. I do not agree with this proposal. I am an OFAH member and sometimes get a bit ticked off with all the licensing for hunting and angling- BUT- I appreciate that it helps to ensure that we hunt and fish responsibly. 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 proposed “cull” of cormorants. The lack of scientific evidence is troubling in of itself. I expect evidence based decisions to be made by my government. I am also very troubled by the lack of need to collect the carcasses. That’s a possible health hazard. Read more

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

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I wholeheartedly disagree with this proposal. The population of double breasted cormorants is not very large. With the proposal to allow hunting this bird the entire population may be wiped out within a few years. This would be tragic. Read more

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

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Humans have never been successful at much except eliminating whole populations or introducing invasive ones. This rings of a poorly thought out proposal by wealthy cottagers to keep their ideas of pristine landscape alive, but not well. Read more

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

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The proposed hunting season for Cormorant is unacceptable, ill conceived & not based on scientific research. It will also cause unacceptable collateral damage to other species. Please do not implement the hunt.

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