I agree that a hunt for these destructive birds be established. The hunt should be year round as the Cormorant is staying longer at bodies of water as climate change is extending the warmer weather. A limit of 35 birds a day would be a more manageable number to dispose of during the day.
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I find it very discouraging to spend so much time hatching and raising game fish and puttingthem into the area waterways to feed the cormorants. Yes I am very much in favor of cormorant hunt.
from what i understand about the cormorant is that it eats fish in large quantites destroying the fish other fish feed on hence reducing the salmon in particular...i dont remember this bird when i was growing up ....i dont see nothing wrong with this proposal on the killing of these birds...there wi
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I have watched the comorant population explode in the last 10years....I have lived on a river in NONTARIO for 50 years . Fewer fish and more birds every year.
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This is a terrible proposal that I am strongly against and is not based on sound science. Opening a hunting season like this will substantially reduce this bird species to no one's benefit.
Glad to see this. As I drive along the shores of Lake Ontario and see the damage done by these birds from being over populated. There are islands that will take years to recover if they ever do from the acidic droppings. As for culling the flock it will only help improve the health of the species.
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This is absolutely outrageous. Blaming cormorants for low fish stocks is a blatantly false argument. We should be doing more to protect native species and ecosystems.
I am not a hunter so will not participate in the hunt. However I am totally in favor of the changes. I have seen the damage done to many islands by there birds.
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The proposal to allow hunting of Double-crested Cormorants is not acceptable. It amounts to a killing spree where each hunter can kill dozens of birds each day without even retrieving the carcasses.
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I have hunted and fished the Bruce Peninsula and it's surrounding waters for the last 45 years. We know cormorants eat copious amounts of small fish, many of which are the sports fish bass, perch and walleye.
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"Control" is deceptive language for what is simply slaughter of a natural species, Cormorants. Referencing "hunters" is deceptive as well for what is, historically,"blood sport". These native animals will be destroyed, yet again because of misinformation.
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The proposed hunting of cormorants has me quite concerned. My main concern is that many hunters are not experienced bird watchers, out on the water, bobbing in the waves, one can easily mistake a common loon for a cormorant.
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Yes, I and my family believe there must be something done with the population, just not sure about the numbers and or length of season.
We hunt and fish and enjoy the outdoors regularly and have seen what cormerants have distroyed.
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If there is scientific basis that there are detrimental effects over overpopulation of this species, a controlled cull would be the better approach. Unlimited killing of 50 birds a day, every day by an unlimited number of hunters even during the breeding season will result in:
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This proposed change to the province’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act to designate double-crested cormorants as a “game” bird species appears to be simply an exercise that is clearly aimed at the extermination of the animal rather than providing an alternate food source for human consumption.
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This proposal ignores the available scientific information about the bird in question and related species who are nesting in similar environments.
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