For 15 years we dealt with a provincial Liberal government who did not care about animal welfare in Ontario. Generally they bowed to special interest groups when making their decisions.
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Cormorant culling is a long overdue necessity. They are highly disruptive, voracious fish eaters whose feces destroy habitat for all manner of other animals. They black out the sky en masse in Hamilton Harbour. They destroy parkland in Toronto's Tommy Thompson park.
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In my personal opinion, hunting should not be allowed at all. We live in a world which has adequate means to supply food to all. Hunting just for sport is totally irresponsible.
What is being proposed is not a comparable hunting season. This is a cull.
Looking up the information on other waterfowl including Canada geese, cackling geese, ducks, rails, gallinules, coots, snow geese, Ross geese) hunting seasons generally range from September 1st through January 5th.
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The identified rationale for this proposal does not justify its implementation. There are other means to wildlife management than an open season that allows for a huge number of birds to be killed and impacts related to breedung seasons of both cormorants and other species.
Cormorants have no natural enemies or environmental controls. They are becoming a huge problem in all of the great lakes, despoiling the islands, consuming the smaller fish, decimating the food chain for sport and commercial fishing.
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I am a avid fisherman and waterfowl hunter. I am on the water 8 months of the year and over the past 10 years i have seen Cormorant numbers constantly rising and popping up on new lakes.
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I am not in support of a hunting season against Cormorants.
I do not believe there is any reputable scientific evidence that Cormorants are the root cause of decreasing fish stock (as opposed to over-harvesting, environmental factors, climate change, pollution etc.).
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This is an incredibly stupid idea!
Where is there any biological science supporting this proposal?
Where is there any supporting justification to warrant this insane action?
Some people think these birds are ugly... so kill them all!
Wildlife management at its best!
You should be ashamed!
Re-defining double-crested cormorants as "game birds" and then allowing a summer season, a huge "bag limit" of 50 (vs five for ruffed grouse for example) and allowing cormorant "hunters" to dispose of the killed birds with using them for food --and who could consume 50 cormorants?--masks an extermin
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This is a proposal for a cormorant cull not a hunting season. Allowing hunters to kill up to 50 cormorants a day with no limit, which makes it effectively unenforceable, and no requirement to use the meat is not hunting.
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I agree with the OFAH, I have seen while duck hunting over the years the cormorant population explode. I have seen on Opeongo Lake in Algonquin Park one beautiful treed island be turned into a barren waste land of dead trees with roosting/nesting cormorants.
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