I feel as though, unlike mallards or Canada geese or swans, for instance, the double-crested cormorant isn't as well-known by the general population. I only learned about them about 8 years ago as a teenager, and since then I've been seeing them everywhere.
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First - the log in doesn't work.
I support decreasing the environmental impact these birds impose. I have seen them intimidate loons which are usually the most territorial birds on the lake.
No one should have the right to put forward their opinions or ideas of murdering animals because THEY think it's right or beneficial. Look at all the facts.
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To open a hunting season for the Double-Crested Cormorant is totally wrong and should not be considered . The population of these birds will eventually stabilize and reach an equilibrium with their available food supplies.
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1) From what I have read, I'm not aware that there is sufficient scientific data to support the case for a widespread hunt of an animal that is not desired for human consumption.
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I oppose the proposal. Allowing hunters to bag fifty birds a day. Are we living in the middle ages?
In order to appease the fishing industry and land owners concerned with 'aesthetics'.
Come on!
Good morning.
I see a lot of pushback from PETA type groups opposed to the cormorant cull merely as a bias. The hunt is a good idea and will benefit many areas of the wetlands ecosystem.
Get rid of those pests.
Please reconsider passing and enacting this dangerous and uncalled for legislation. This from a cottager who did have a " Group of Seven" island, which was taken over by cormorants on our lake.
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I do not believe that we should be adding another species to the hunting list. As a cottager in Northern Ontario, I love spending time at the lake to experience all the natural beauty- creatures in particular.
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I am in full support of this proposal to hunt cormorants, a long time coming!!
If the nay-sayers could only experience the detrimental effects of this bird in abundance first handedly, surely most would embrace this proposal as I do.
On with it!
The openness of this proposal’s limits are sickening. 50 birds per day with no holding limit? Basically opens an unenforceable cull... on a pesky bird ... but also nowhere is there empirical evidence to support the cull. Fisheries and landowners are complaining?
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I am wholeheartedly against listing the double-crested cormorant as a game bird in Ontario. Humans interfering with wildlife by trying to manage numbers never works out well for the wild life itself - neither for the animal or bird being killed or for the ones left behind.
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This proposal is contrary to everything that an environmental agency should stand for. To declare war on a species that is just barely holding at sustainable numbers is ludicrous and again, contrary to normal environmental actions.
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This all seems very unnecessary.... and will result in countless birds dying simply for sport and then spoiling.... and in turn their young suffering of starvation in the nest. Wreckless and shameful.
The Government of Ontario proposed "hunt" of double-crested cormorants is wrong and would cause needless suffering. Designating the double-crested cormorants as a “game” species is wrong and could easily eradicate this ecologically beneficial native bird from most of the province.
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I am extremely concerned and disappointed with this proposal. It does not appear to me that it has been thought out, and does not take into account the safety of residents and cottagers of the locations it will affect. Hunters actively wandering through forests and roads.
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This proposal is not appropriate with respect to wildlife management goals, and hunting traditions, in Ontario. I'm not opposed to properly managed wildlife culls where they are understood to be necessary to protect species at risk, but that's not what this is.
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I am shocked and appalled that the provincial government will allow this kind of activity. It is entirely contrary to everything that Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry stands for.
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Please do not allow the cormorant hunt. Nature has always been better at controlling populations than humans are at interfering in that process. Its inhumane and will have a detrimental impact on many species.
We need some kind of hunting season on these birds. I live on lake couchiching and have been watching the fish populations get smaller and smaller each year. Also the islands are looking worse and worse each year because of them. They are an absolute nuisance
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