Absolutely unacceptable. In fact the ministry should be looking to reduce hunting province wide. The proposal is nothing more than a wholesale slaughter as the flesh of these birds is unpalatable.
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I’m outraged by this proposal. A nearly year round “hunting season” (which is actually and obviously a cull)...when will I ever get a break from the gunshots? Fall birding sucks because all I hear and see are hunters scaring all birds away, not just game birds.
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I really hope this proposal is adopted, the population is getting out of control and is devastating some areas where larger groups are found. They also do a lot of damage to our fishery stocks.
This proposal is ill thought out and could damage our fragile ecosystem.
Firstly - cormorants are currently feeding on invasive fish in our great lakes which are a problem such as alewife and round gobies.
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I support the government endeavor to control the double-breasted cormorant population, to list it as a game bird as a management tool. I believe that creating a hunting season could also portray hunters in a negative way.
I am fully in favour of establishing a hunting season for the double-crested cormorant. Cormorants are destructive invaders in the same way Gobie, Asian Carp, and a host of foreign vegetation have become.
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This draconian, outdated and ill founded plan to slaughter cormorants will:
-cause unimaginable cruelty by allowing the wholesale, uncontrolled, impossible to monitor, slaughter of cormorants across the province,
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I believe the proposal is necessary for the health of fisheries all over ontario and is the only way of controlling the population. I agree with the proposal
I am a hunter, trapper, fisherman and farmer and therefore very much value the health of our ecosystem. Cormorants have and continue to devastate many areas of this province whether it be by killing entire islands or decimating fisheries they choose to colonize.
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The cormorants are destroying the beautiful thousand islands and many small lakes as well. Greatest idea in years to open hunting on the cormorants as they are also destroying fish populations in the area as well. The islands they live on all stink like crap. Great idea.
As a birder on southern Georgian Bay.
Most people can’t tell the difference between a common Loon and a cormorant.
We can’t afford to lose even one loon.
Allowing bird to spoil at 50 a day per person. Firing from boat is ridiculous. And dangerous.
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I agree with a process to reduce the numbers of cormorants, but I am not convinced they are a "game bird". Being a game bird implies a hunter would need to consume the bird. I'm not sure how cormorants taste, or how well they would dress given the toxicity of their digestive systems.
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Please remove the excessive number of Cormorants.
When I see a flock of over 500 looking for food, at least once a week on lake Simcoe I shudder .
The small fish / minnow population that used to be abundant along the shore line has all but disappeared.
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I am quite familiar with the problem double-crested cormorants pose on Lake Erie's islands, having done inventory studies of species-at-risk impacted by them for COSEWIC and Parks Canada; I have seen first hand how they have damaged and degraded SAR habitat, the reason Middle Island and East Sister
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Having watched a densely forested, beautiful little island, on the N/E area of Sturgeon Lake completely destroyed in 24 months. Yes please, action needs to be NOW!!!
My position is opposition to the proposal which would allow hunters to kill upwards to 50 cormorants per day for the following reasons:
It will cause much unnecessary suffering to the birds, including young birds in the nest that will die from the unnecessary death of parent birds.
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I’m writing in regards to the proposed cormorant hunting changes. I am an avid fisher of Lake Simcoe for the past 40 years. I have witnessed the devastation and destruction caused by this out of control species, especially the shores of the sparsely populated Thorah Island shores.
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