In 2000, the MNR announced that it had begun a five-year research and monitoring program to scientifically examine the effects of double-crested cormorants on fish and wildlife populations and sensitive vegetation.
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I have a cottage in southern georgian bay and our islands that we swim off are now inhabited by hundreds of cormarants and are so full of discusting fowl feces that you cant even approach within hudreds of yards let alone swim.
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I am in agreement with controlling the kormorant population. I am assuming that other options have been examined such as destroying the eggs/nests, oiling eggs, etc.
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I am in favour of this proposed open season. Amending the current legislation to allow the game to spoil or be disposed of makes perfect sense to me.
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I believe they are doing a lot of damage to our fish populations. Over the last two years I have seen cormerands farther in shore, where as the years befor that you would only really see them on the Great Lakes!
I’m all for controlling the numbers of double crested cormerands!!!!!!!
“...so hunters could allow cormorant to spoil...” so basically you want it to be legal to just murder cormorants? This is not hunting.
Having a hunting season that goes through the spring and summer is terrible for birds and birders.
As both an avid hunter as well as a fisheries and environmental professional, I am extremely excited about the prospect of a hunting season for double crested cormorants. I support the proposal and am curious about the study mentioned that would monitor the impact of the proposed harvest.
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As a long time hunter ,fisherman,trapper and outdoor enthusiast i have seen the population increase of cormorants ,we have never had a population of these birds in this area in the past as they are now.
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I would have thought this should have been done ages ago. Sport fishing is a massive sport which helps feeds our economy, what does this fish eating bird do for our economy ? It also eats its body weight in fish per day. Please make the changes and start to control the population.
I agree with this 100%. The season should be opened no questions asked. I live in Port Carling muskoka and have grown up on a small lake. Spend most of my free time out on the lakes fishing if it's one of the big 3 lakes ( rosseau,muskoka, and Joseph) to small stocked lakes. Grew up on the lakes.
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I am highly in favor of this proposal having witnessed first hand the destructive nature of the cormorant, its effect on the fishery and the ineffective measures taken to date to control the cormorant population.
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I believe this is long overdue! 100% for it. Could be good sport as well....fast birds. I fish lake Ontario off Toronto's waterfront....a offshore wind carrys a stench of bird droppings which is worse than a sewage plant!
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Please make it possible to cull as many of these dirty fish eating monsters that they are. They eat way too many fish both bait and sports fish. This combined with the damage they do to their nesting sites by killing the trees and bushes under the nests is the best reason to kill them all.
Living along the shores of a great lake, I see the cormorants as a nuisance as in destruction of small island areas. l've witnessed them herding and dessimating schools of small fish, and fish stocking programs.
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