Their should be no limit on the cormorants they should have an all year open season.
These birds are destroying the kawartha lakes over eating and plumiting the fish population and where they roost it generally destroys the vegitation around it from their feces
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This saddens me. I read the proposal and first you mentioned the Double Crested Cormorant declined in population in the 70’s. Then you state that the population has stablaized or slightly declined in the 20’s Make up your mind. Can you just leave these poor birds alone.
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Open a season definitely. It will be far cheaper than what the Ministry has to do now. Also, in the long run the best way to keep a species well managed is to change it from a "nuisance" species to a "game" species.
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This is long over due. Having seen first hand what these birds do to fish stocks and the damage around nest sites, I would be in favor of reducing the numbers.
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I am in full agreement with the proposal on invasive species with respect to fish habitat. I feel that there should be an open season (all year long) until numbers are brought under control. Included in the cormorant cull should be sea gulls which are also an invasive species.
Cormorants are becoming overpopulated and destroying the natural habitat around my home islands of Georgian Bay, Ontario.
I fully SUPPORT a hunting season to reduce, and control, the population as I see an impact on the environment, ecosystem, and fish species because of these birds.
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As a cottage caretaker on Georgian Bay I see the destruction to the ecosystem (trees, fish, other birds) that the cormorant population has. The birds are overpopulated and damaging, and I FULLY SUPPORT a hunting season.
After reading the proposal my comment is that we should go forward for a two year trial period with a mandatory stop on Dec 31 2020 at which point an evaluation can be done to see the impacts, positive and negative of this change.
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This is long overdue. The damage that these birds have already done to trees and the fishery is unbelievable, and unless these changes come about the devastation to our lakes and surrounding greenery will continue with no hope of ever recovering...
I think this makes a lot of sense. Cormorant populations have gotten out of balance in many areas and this would be an effective way to reduce their numbers.
I think this is long over due. I have seen the explosion of this birds population for the past 25 years and the damage they have caused to many islands in the great lakes as well as depleting small bait fish. I support this 100%.
I fully support the proposed cormorant hunting and sincerely think it will bring extra revenue to the MNR and definitely reducing the numbers of cormorants as well as helping both commercial and recreational fishing by doing so.
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I believe that this proposal is long overdue. Cormorants are now rampant and large numbers do not migrate anymore.
the negative impact they have had on our fisheries is difficult to determine exactly, but for certain it has not enhanced it.
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I believe the allowing of hunting cormorants is long over due. They are killing the fishing in areas and destroying the vegetation on islands. Apparently NY state has a program that allows for the shooting of cormorants and taking them to locations to register numbers and dispose of them.
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