Ontario Cormorant hunt a danger to ecosystems and people

[Catherine]

The proposed Cormorant hunt in Ontario is really an open season to drive a species to extinction. The hunting season will be from March 15-Dec 31. Hunters will be allowed to kill 50 birds a day! That comes to 14,550 birds per hunter per year. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/do...-1.5053685

No species can sustain that kind of loss and survive. Cormorants are native to Ontario so they are a natural part of the ecosystem where ever they live. Taking them out of the ecosystem in such high numbers will have consequences.

They also nest and live in areas where there are other birds that will be put at risk. They nest in places where there are human recreation areas. That many hunters put people at  risk. The whole idea is very dangerous. In theory killing so many Cormorants will bring back the fish supplies, but there is no evidence that this is what will happen. Instead, destabilizing the ecology could make many things worse, even the fish supply.

The provincial government is determined to do it. Sadly this is just one more badly thought out idea from  our current provincial government. No government should have the power to drive a species toward extinction.