I'm 63. Born and raised in Port Elgin Ontario. We saw cormorants around years ago but then they "took off". Not sure if it was when the alewive population exploded but it likely was during that time period.
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Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario
Proposal: https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/013-4124
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Dear Minister Yakabuski,
Re: EBR 013-4124: Proposal to establish a hunting season for double-crested cormorants in Ontario
I tried to separate my comments from the proposal wording using both colour and italics but neither worked, so I tried separating them.
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Please do not allow this to happen. We have enough people with guns in our neighbourhoods and killing wildlife. These are innocent birds and deserve to live.
Previous culls of this nature have proven ineffective while ultimately having a negative impact on local ecosystems. There is no way to humanely kill large numbers of birds in the field.
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Please do not allow this to happen. We have enough people with guns in our neighbourhoods and killing wildlife. These are innocent birds and deserve to live as part of our beautiful natural habitats.
I became a waterfowl hunter and outdoorsman as a teenager in the 1960s, and later traded in the shotgun for a camera. Wildlife management and ethics around hunting are of interest to me.
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Obviously this is a complicated issue and I don't pretend to be an expert but I've always liked cormorants. I find the proposed hunting timeline to be silly and dangerous.
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"Harvesting" implies keeping the game for food. The proposed change in legislation to deal with a perceived problem of one inedible species is not warranted. Hunters should only be allowed to take wildlife for food.
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I do not believe that allowing there to be an open season on double-crested cormorants is a good proposal. The birds declined in population for twenty years and then made a healthy comeback.
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It's interesting that the proposal does not include any links to studies or research that supports the need for a Cormorant hunting season but you tell us if we have comments about the proposal we can include links and attachments to support our key points.
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I support the establishment of a cormorant season. Once they locate a food source, they seem to descend on it in numbers and feed on it until the source is so depleted they need to move on.
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A season on the totally useless Cormorant is long overdue! One of our islands, that used to be beautiful, has now been decimated by the nesting of hundreds of these unattractive birds. The odor is very disturbing as well.
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I am strongly opposed to the idea of "culling,", that is mass slaughter, of cormorants. They are a native species, and I say let them be. This mass slaughter would be a bloodbath, and I am against it. It is a bad wildlife "management" notion that should be stopped.
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