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

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As a biologist, outdoor enthusiast and nature lover I am IN FAVOUR of this proposal. The cormorants are destroying habitat and have really become a real threat to our ecosystem and fisheries without some form of control. I would also support a culling program at breeding grounds. Read more

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

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I live inCornwall Ontario, I’m a member of Muskies Canada & Cornwall Lunker Club, we take out the local bird club sometime on the water and all we see is Cormorants everywhere, Islands all dead around summerstown/Lancaster area. Read more

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

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i hope that the ministry is not just taking the word of these groups who claim that these birds deplete fish populations and such?? Will there be actual studies done by the ministry to either confirm or deny these claims?? Thankyou

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What is the basis for the "concerns expressed by some groups". Do they have an actual evidence that cormorants have been detrimental? Or is it just "gut feeling". This is a misguided enterprise with absolutely no actual data as a foundation for this decision. Read more

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

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I hunt and these birds are destroying many trees all along the open bays near the lake on Rondeau bay, there are probably quite a few hundred there alone. So many that people call the dead tree in the bay “the cormerant tree” so much acid defication on it and it died in short time. Read more

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

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This proposal is not evidently based on any science beyond the self-described anecdotal accounts of commercial fishing industry, property owners, and "individuals" who believe (surely not objectively) that cormorants are bad for industrial fishing or recreation. Read more

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Double crested cormorants breed alongside various other species of protected (and in many cases, declining waterbirds). Allowing this species to be shot could cause considerable disturbance to other species. Read more

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