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

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16585

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The activity being proposed should not use the term 'hunters, or hunting' but employ the terms 'cull or culling'. It is an affront to me as a life-long, law-abiding, ethical, hunter-conservationist to kill or wound wildlife that is not being retrieved, consumed or used (e.g. fur). 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 mass killing of cormorants in Ontario. It is not a scientifically appropriate decision. The present concerns coming forward are mostly anecdotal not based on proper research. In fact the unsubstantiated claims against the overpopulation of cormorants was debunked. Read more

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

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16587

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We are very concerned about the effect cormorants are having on our cottage lake in central Ontario and welcome a change in the legislation that would help to mitigate the destruction done by cormorants to the lake and surrounding areas where they nest.

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

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Cormorants have become an important predator of round gobies, an aggressive invasive species in the Great Lakes. That's according to a national park biologist I interviewed as part of my work. We want to control round gobies. It makes sense to let cormorants do the job. Read more

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

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This is another ridiculous proposal by a government agency. If we have learned anything over the last 200 years it should be that the interaction of nature are very complex and little understood by humans. Witness the introduction of rabbits in Australia, the phragmites etc. Read more

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

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I believe the proposed legal slaughter of cormorants is wrong and inhumane. Moreover, it is based on unsubstantiated claims - such as the depletion of fish stocks due to cormorants. Science should be the only thing guiding this decision.

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

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16595

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Ontario Rivers Alliance

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The Ontario Rivers Alliance (ORA) is a Not-for-Profit grassroots organization acting as a voice for several stewardships, organizations, private and First Nation members who have come together to protect, conserve and restore Ontario riverine ecosystems. Read more

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

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*50 a day is way too high & that limit is inviting specie decimation * Not on a boat * Not left to sploil..need to retrieve cormorant & tag *** very concerned egrets, herons & loons could get hit by mistake or over zealous hunters. Read more

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

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Destruction of green space,killing of trees and stench from the waste of these birds is only a small part of the problem.These ever increasing flocks of birds are ruining Ontario fish stocks across our province.I’m an avid angler of many species and the voracious appetite of these fish eating machi Read more

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

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As an environmental professional, passionate photographer and birdwatcher, I am objecting the proposed hunt on a Double-crested Cormorant, because it will create lots of disturbances and not only to cormorants, but to many other associated colonially-breeding species. Read more

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

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16606

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Georgian Bay Forever

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013-4124 In Opposition The issue is the hunting season on cormorants proposed by the MNR at the apparent request of the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission Technical Advisory based on concerns expressed by some groups and individuals. Read more

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