I have a cottage in Haliburton on Kennisis Lake. Cormorants have started to show up at the lake on the last few years. Everyone is worried about what harm they can do to our trees. I support a hunting season on cormorants.
Hello. I’m not a hunter; nor at 72, will ever become one. And I offer my comments as a private voting citizen who cares deeply about the environment and the legacy left to future generations.
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Once again the Ministry of Natural Resources has been negligent in looking at this ongoing problem.
Now it's been left to the hunter once again to fix the problem through killing them.
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This numbers specified in this proposed hunting season is very excessive. I am a biologist and continue to be surprised by the province's shortsighted conservation efforts.
The proposed cormorant cull is not science based. Historically, culls have highly detrimental collateral effects.
Please vote no on the proposed cormorant cull.
I am both a hunter and a fisherman. As a fisherman, I see a steady decline in the number of fish being caught in our area of Lake Huron as well ad an ever increasing number of cormorants. I can't help but think that there is a definitely a need to reduce the population of these birds.
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This is a completely irresponsible proposal. First, what evidence does the ministry have to indicate that a hunting season would help control cormorant populations?
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I don't think the proposed number of birds that can be killed is healthy. It will wipe out entire colonies and might make this species endangered.
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The devastation these birds have caused along the northern shoreline of Lake Ontario is incredible. The smell and damaged to trees/plants has to been seen to be believed.
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I acknowledge the occasional need to cull cormorant populations on a local scale in the Great Lakes. However, the proposed legislation goes much too far in two key respects:
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As a resident of the Thousand Island area, it is distressing to see the damage that the Double Crested Cormorant has done to some of our beautiful islands.
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This proposed change is regressive and cruel and abhorrent. I absolutely am oppposed to reinstating this type of wholesale killing of a species that was once at the brink of extinction in the province. The government should be ashamed of itself!!!
Ontario must preserve the unique native wildlife we have and not slaughter for the sake of a few hunters' groups who have misled the Ministry.
Those beautiful birds need protection, not open-reign to violent deaths while nesting or simply living the life it deserves.
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I am a senior citizen who sees cormorants on my daily spring/summer walks on the Hamilton trail. I think they are beautiful birds and I have never been bothered by them in the least. Allowing them to be hunted is just one more example of man’s failure to appreciate the natural world. Who’s next?
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These birds were endangered in the 70's and 80's, as well as bald eagles...I live in Sarnia, I was so excited when I saw my first cormorant diving in St Clair river in the 90's, what an awesome sight to see them BACK! They are an important part of our eco-system NOT a threat to the fish population!
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Although I do believe in the benefits of this hunt, I strongly suggest we CONSIDER:
- Preventing ANY disruption of breeding and breeding grounds of other bird species such as herons.
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Culling the numbers of these birds is long overdue. We have a place on Lake Ontario in Kingston and the destruction to some of the smaller islands here is catastrophic. This doesn't take into account the decimation of the fish stocks by cormorants.
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Way to late as everything unfortunately government takes way too long to get any real action done and usually because some one might get offended no one truly listens to the people that live, work, home, or just pleasure the wild life.
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