Allowing hunting in the summer months means someone could walk up to a nesting colony with parents trying to raise their babies and blast away, leaving nothing but rotting carcasses behind. Is this the age we live in that we allow it to happen?
I live about 50 yards from the edge of Lake Huron within view of Chantry Island.....see the over abundance of these birds regularly......see vast numbers in flocks up and down the lake...on the island...in my opinion they do need to be thinned out.
I fully support this proposal as Cormorant population over the Great Lakes area has increased exponentially over the last 30 years generally negatively impacting healthy fish stocks and vegetation in the Great Lakes basin.
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On a daily level I have the opportunity to see the visible destruction above water these birds have created. Below the water level there is also the impact to fisheries.
I'm 100% in favor of a hunt / cull of the Cormorant .
Thank you .
.I 100% support the addition of adding the double crested Cormorant in Ontario to the hunting season. This should definitely and obviously improve fishing all lakes troubled with Cormorants all over Ontario.
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Contrary to the OFAH website, cormorants are not an ecological threat. Their fish intake are not game fish such as salmon and/or trout. Yes, there are in abundance around Toronto Island however poise no threat to humans.
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I believe that Cormorants are one of the greatest detriments to the habitat of the Great Lakes. Their guano kills foliage on contact and I am seeing more and more of them in Private Ponds where they are decimating the fish and other aquatics in these ponds.
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This is a TERRIBLE proposal, not clearly supported by any evidence or science. It is not even clear that there is a problem of a declining fishery, let alone whether said fishery decline is attributable to cormorants, other wildlife or ecological factors, or human causes.
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As an avid fisherman I would certainly welcome any proposal to limit the cormorant population. They have killed trees on our lake's islands, and are most likely directly responsible for a decline in our catches.
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I am commenting on ERO 013-4124. I am totally opposed to this proposal to slaughter cormorants. There is simply no need for it, except to pander to fishermen who believe this myth that cormorant populations will explode if they can't be killed en masse.
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I believe that this is a good proposal. The cormorant populations are increasing to a level that is environmentally unsustainable. We need to put some type of control in place and this seems like a good place to start.
Abandon the mass killing of cormorants plan. It will not be beneficial. In fact, the process of killing them will force other bird species to vacate the colony sites they share. Nobody I know wants this to happen. You're doing everything right so far. Don't screw this one up!
Please retract the ignorant decision to hunt the cormorants, and disallow the wasteful degradation of their species. We need to be working to preserve wildlife, and not destroy it.
I am glad to finally here this , it will go a long way to restore bait fish population. Please also consider areas where there is no hunting to cull these birds .
It is around time. Always see large number of these birds hunting in packs for the fish while I am out fishing, in more and more locations. Hope this will help to control their numbers, perhaps with no restrictions on the hunt except for city parks etc.
This proposal does not seem to make a lot of sense; there seems to be a distinct lack of evidence in the form of ecological studies to support the basis for listing Cormorants as game birds. They're not much sport to hunt, either, unlike ducks or geese.
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This proposal is a disgrace. This will result in the extinction of this species. I am dismayed that Ontario's wildlife policies are so regressive. This is not a policy to allow hunting, just wholesale cruelty and slaughter. A hunting season from March to December?
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COURTESY OF ZOOCHECK CANADA:
Persecution by humans and pesticide poisoning all but wiped out cormorants in Ontario on two previous occasions but, in recent years, they have returned and populated those habitats that will support them.
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Yahoo its about time!!!
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