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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I do not support this proposal. Cormorants are not game birds so it is inappropriate to include them in game bird legislation. There is no scientific evidence to indicate they are a threat to the commercial fishery. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Please do not destroy the colony of Double-Crested Cormorants, Mother Nature takes care of the wild and there is no proof that these birds are detrimental, just as history as proven with wolves are needed to provide a balance.

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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This is a terrible proposal. It is based on the concerns of "some" groups, without input from others, and would study not the potential effects of its implementation, in advance, but only what then happened after implementation (i.e., after harm had potentially been done). Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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This proposal smells bad. It is a perversion of hunting. Shooting up to 50 cormorant/day any time of year and leaving them to rot (don't tell me shooters in a stationary boat will pick them up) wouldn't even pass muster as pest control. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I do support a Double -crested Cormorant cull (hunt), however safe guards need to be in place to protect nearby nesting birds when shooting in a colony. Perhaps a set back of a few hundred meters would be necessary. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I would like to see a hunting season on these birds. Living on the water, I have seen these birds destroy the vegetation on an island near me from their waste. I have watched a large group feed all day on fish in the water. They do not contribute anything to our environment.

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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As a hunter who primarily targets waterfowl, I do not agree with the proposed action concerning the addition of Double-Crested Cormorants as a game species, via its exception from the Migratory Bird Act. I feel this amendment to the act is not justified for the following reasons: Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Please do not allow the hunting of cormorants. Cormorants are magnificent birds. Cormorant colonies are a wonder of nature. To allow hunting -- particularly given that cormorants are inedible -- would be ethically and ecologically wrong. Let nature take its course.

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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Allowing hunters to shoot any bird or animal during breeding season is totally unacceptable and cruel. Animals and birds should not have their parent shot, so that they have no chance at survival and will starve to death. What is wrong with the government. Have they no ethics. Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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I oppose this proposal on several grounds: 1. The need to kill cormorants as means to protect fish stocks is NOT proven; 2. Possible positive impacts of cormorants on the broader ecosystem have not been considered; Read more

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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario

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So many things about the proposed hunting season for cormorants make little sense to me, beginning with this statement on the website: "There continues [sic] to be concerns expressed by some groups (commercial fishing industry, property owners) and individuals that cormorants have been detrimental Read more

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