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Ontario Cormorant hunt a danger to ecosystems and people
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There are a lot of reasons why the fish are in short supply. When they put in waterways and locks certain species were able to travel up stream into new lakes. Some of the new species eat the eggs and hatchlings of native fish and deplete their numbers.
I think I read of one lake where they stocked it with fish, the wrong kind of fish and that destroyed the population of native fish. 
Cormorants just don't account for the fish decline. Human activities also destroy fish stocks. Even dams and shoreline construction can destroy fish stocks. Cormorants eat some fish, but we kill way more.

The hunt is totally unreasonable. It covers their entire breeding season so there will be orphaned baby birds. Also the extreme numbers that can be killed every day are out of proportion to the number of cormorants that actually exist. The whole thing is unreasonable and cruel.

It is an ecological disaster in the making because we have never studied the impact of  reducing cormorant numbers. For all we know cormorants might be eating a type of fish that is responsible for the decline of fish numbers. If that were true then killing cormorants could cause the fish population to crash.
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RE: Ontario Cormorant hunt a danger to ecosystems and people - by Catherine - 03-31-2019, 05:04 PM

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