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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Having a 9 month hunting season with dead cormorants lying around everywhere is not a good solution for cottagers and residents, not to mention that sport hunting can be cruel to the birds where hunters just mame them and they are left to die a horribly painful death. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Please stop this proposal. Hunting of colonial nesters during breeding season means nests and nestlings abandoned. This applies to not only Cormorants but all other nesters in the area. This is a very bad idea for the environment! Let’s at least be humane! Thank you.

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Double-crested cormorants are a native Ontario water bird and a part of the natural ecology of Middle Island and High Bluff Island, both world renowned bird sanctuaries. The proposals to “manage” them are ill-conceived, short sighted, a waste of resources and enormously cruel. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I agree 100% that this is a good idea and a long time in coming. Little worried about how I can help reduce the population in Lake Ontario if I cant hunt off Toronto. Word has it you have to go out to the international border which makes no sense! Hopefully that can be addressed. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Cormorants should be left alone. There is no need for population control as their populations are already being naturally adjusted after their sharp rise over the past decade. Just as any population spike there is a natural carrying capacity that will be met before they even out again. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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RE: Cormorants First off, in my opinion this whole idea is deplorable. "The Cormorant's population declined between 1950s-1970s due to environmental contaminants." The causal effects from humans using DDT and other toxins. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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In the past I would encourage people to volunteer as I did to help the MNR and take time away from work and become active in stocking trout as it improved Ontario's fisheries and tourism and attracted young people to environmental consciousness. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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This topic is something that has caused great concern with many cottagers in the Kawartha Lakes area and beyond. Some of the smaller lakes have been overrun by these birds (300+ on our small lake alone). Read more

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