I’ve seen how they have destroyed the trees on the small islands in Lake Erie. Their numbers are amazing when they fly by the shoreline in front of my house. They seem to outnumber all the other birds by far.
Cormorants need controlled ASAP. They should be treated as an invasive species. They are eating piles of native fish to the point of potentially harming the fish population.
It's time to control their population through any means.
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Our property is on Stoney Lake in the Kawartha Lakes region. We have observed the increase of cormorants on the lake with great concern. Small islands on the lake have been taken over by cormorants and totally devastated them. Tall white pines on uninhabited islands have no foliage.
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I've fished the Bay of Quinte area for about 40 yrs.. I never use to see a cormorant and now they're very abundant.
I'm not aware of any natural predation and am concern about the number of fish they remove from the ecosystem.
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The cormorant population has "stabilized or declined" recently yet the proposal puts an open hunting season for basically the entire period they are in this region. I propose that this may doom cormorants to extinction.
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The move to allow hunting of cormorants is long overdue. The environmental damage to the landscape where they are running rampant is disgraceful and highlights the political interference that has lead to a population explosion that requires action.
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Don't kill the cormoranents. Humans' answer to every problem is to destroy it. Find another humane, ethical solution to the problem. Hunting is NOT the answer and only upsets the natural balance of nature. This has been prooved time and time again.
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I agree that cormorants are an ugly, disruptive bird and certainly not one that I enjoy seeing in my area. However I do not agree establishing a hunting free for all is the proper means to control this species.
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I'm in favour of protecting our forestry environment through this proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario. Let's take our forests back! Let's get this program approved!
I think this is a great idea and long overdue. Although I truly hate the idea of leaving any animal to spoil without harvesting the meat it can’t be debated the level of destruction on habitat over predation on adolescent sportfish and bait fish. The cormorant population must be reduced.
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It seems to me that using a method of rendering the eggs useless in all the well known nesting areas in southern Ontario would control the population just as effectively at less cost in both dollars and social unrest among the human population.
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Excellent idea
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These birds are not native…
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Mr. Daryl Cronzie has been…
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yes shoot them all
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