Yes I believe they need to be controlled an having a season will help they do a lot of damage to the wooded area around where they live I have seen first hand the damage they do an how they make themself sick from what they do to their surroundings thanks you
I am in support of this proposal. As an avid hunter and fisherman, I spend lots of time in and around Ontario lakes. In my time there, I see many cormorants and an overwhelming amount of islands that their nesting behaviors have destroyed.
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Hello there. I completely agree with the idea. All the back lakes that I hunt and fish now of a over abundance of cormorants and the the fish and land has been affected greatly. The shores and islands of the great lakes are bare dead because of these birds.
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The proposed cormorant hunting season is the greatest thing I've ever heard as a fishermen and a hunter. Anyone who has seen what they can do to an island should not disagree with this.
This needs to happen, these birds are destroying property along the Great Lakes. People have no idea how many of these birds there are and truly how much damage they do to ecosystems on small islands and fish populations. I am all for moving this forward.
I have watched over the last 15 years the Cormorant population explode on Manitoulin Island destroying the bait fish that the salmon feed on as well as destroying the beach and the environment around the water.
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I highly disagree with this proposal. No way these birds eat more fish than commercial fishermen haul out every day from the water. Blaming an animal that only eats enough to fill itself, not over take its share like commercial fishermen, is nothing more than scapegoating .
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I think this is a great idea and about time we caught up with the rest of North America with the cormorant problem, there is so much money spent by the mnr to stock fish only to have them wiped out by these birds.
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This is definitely needed! As an avid angler and hunter ive witnesses how much destruction these birds cause destroying islands like crazy and eat so many game species of fish
Lake Nosbonsing located within the North Bay District have a single island that has been destroyed by these birds. Should their kind be aloud to persist without any intervention, the game fish populations will continue to suffer. These are not open ended comments.
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Cormorants are still expanding range and with population explosion continuing with over populated nesting colonies on inland lands. Example: Sturgeon Lake within Kawartha Lakes (Walleye fishery virtually on verge of collapse - many factors involved - Cormorants being one of them.
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