These birds currently are over harvesting fish at an alarming rate. They destroy habitat with there excrement as seen on snake island Lake Couchiching. A season on these birds would be good for all.
I am a devoted outdoors person and I think that damage done and caused by the over abundance of cormorants to our natural systems is terrible. I 100% support the the opening of a cormorant season
In southwest Ontario these birds are in epidemic proportions. They are destroying flora and fauna with their droppings as well as jeopardizing the sport fishing industry in my area.
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This is beyond mental. This bird is not a game bird. No one eats them. They're not common enough to be a nuisance bird.
This must be stopped at all costs.
PC government will never see another vote from our family if this sort of disastrous governing continues.
100% in favour of this proposal long long overdue fish stocks have suffered greatly both in Lake Ontario and many {inland} lakes game fishes and forage fishes Black.crowned Night Heron habitat has been destroyed locally brown,bullhead markets have closed due to parasites resulting from cormorant
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The Golden Lake, Ontario community is in full support of this proposal. The cormorants are decimating the fishery by eating a huge percentage of the bait fish and the sport fish fry every summer.
Please open a hunting season on this terrible invasive species. I have seen the damage they have done to fisheries, I would hate to see this happen to Ontario, its a beautiful place to come fish, but this bird can and will change that!!
The cormorants have become a problem inside Rondeau Bay as well as the provincial park. A number of nesting trees have been killed off and I am afraid that with the higher water levels and the degradation of of the shore tree line we are loosing a significant buffer zone to shoreline erosion.
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I fully support the culling of cormorants. I live on the St Lawrence River and witness the destruction they cause. Trees on several islands here been killed under the weight of the quano. These birds are not native and should be destroyed.
I fully support the proposal for a hunting season on the cormorants. In my life time I have seen a dramatic impact they have had on both fishing and environmental on Balsam lake in the Kawartha's. Their numbers appear to be larger each season.
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Yes I believe the Cormorant population needs to be controlled. They cause damage to plant life with their excrement and have a voracious appetite for fish. I am in favor of a hunt for the Cormorant.
Sincerely, Robert S.
I think this proposal is long overdue..Cormorants have long been desecrating many islands in our lakes and destroying fish population..
CONGRATULATIONS for stepping up to this nuisance bird and initiating this sensible solution..
Cormorants have become an invasive species where I live on Lake Huron. There were none 30 years ago here and the bass, pickerel and pike were everywhere -- now I mainly see carp and more carp, catfish, shad.
I have observed their nesting sites take over on the seagulls even.
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This is an entirely unacceptable, and obscene policy proposal. Please, explain the rational behind obliterating these birds for 3/4's of the year with a blood-lust "limit" of 50 cormorants/day with no possession limit, and then allow the dead and dying birds to simply rot wherever they fall?
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I have property on Balsam Lake and the cormorants have populated a small Island and their population is rapidly expanding...they are praying on the fish population and need to be controlled...I totally support a hunting season or a culling process.
This is an excellent proposal that is long over due. I don't have any comment as to suggested changes as I believe what you have proposed hits all the right marks.
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