Do you support a cormorant hunt?

Yes, and I bet you it would be plenty of fun

I all for it, but am curious why the MNRF have suddenly decided they can be hunted and no longer need to be protected. There has been lobbying for a season on them for a while now, without success. Suddenly the MNRF opens the flood gates. Something must have gotten their attention.

I don't know if I support it as it doesn't affect me and I see no reason to kill a animal if I am not going to consume it.

I think maybe if the government was to ask for my vote I would say no.

Other than snakes, I have a hard time killing anything that can't be used but these critters have to be contolled. Same as whacking seagulls at an airport.

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

I don't know if I support it as it doesn't affect me and I see no reason to kill a animal if I am not going to consume it.

I think maybe if the government was to ask for my vote I would say no.

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Well like I said earlier in the thread you could burn them. At least they would be safer for you to stack then firewood.

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

I don't know if I support it as it doesn't affect me and I see no reason to kill a animal if I am not going to consume it.

I think maybe if the government was to ask for my vote I would say no.

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These things are like mould, once they get a start they slowly spread. Sooner or later if left alone you will feel the effect.

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

I don't know if I support it as it doesn't affect me and I see no reason to kill a animal if I am not going to consume it.

I think maybe if the government was to ask for my vote I would say no.

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Holy mackerel........Are you not the guy who always says, ' we should stick together', against anything from the anti's. I see now, how you act when it does not affect you. LOL

Back when you could shoot lead I would always have a load of 7 1/2 or two for the flocks of starlings ..... getting a few cheap lead free shots in 6 for cormorants .... yep! Don't see starlings where I have hunted lately (last year, no time this year... once last year... my wife, boss and a schedule book....) so I don't have any cheap loads for them anymore.

At the cottage with a bow .... yes. You sit having a coffee and watch one eat small bass one after the other (no perch ...) ... YES!!! May not hit them but a wood arrow with a shock head or cheap broad head, then figure out the distances and a morning coffee.... sounds good to me.

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

I don't know if I support it as it doesn't affect me and I see no reason to kill a animal if I am not going to consume it.

I think maybe if the government was to ask for my vote I would say no.

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I am agreeing with FMC... someone buy a lotto ticket!

Think again about it, do you kill mice and rats, ants, spiders, centipedes.... in the house, shed, cottage, garage...?


http://www.muskokablog.com/?s=cormorant

This is a pest at the current numbers and spread!
http://www.muskokablog.com/wp-conten...morants800.jpg

was a nice bass....
https://www.lake-mohave.com/wp-conte...1/Comorant.jpg

I have seen how they denuded areas where they gather caused by their excrement. Then there is the bait fish consumption question ? Do they eat invasive species like Gobies ? Just by the size of them it be safe to say they have to eat a lot. I hunt and fish the Long Point area so I would cast my vote as a "For" in having a "cull" or "hunt". I believe calling it a "cull" would mean a one time thing as opposed to "hunt" that would have it as a yearly season. Either way we should do our part north of the border and not let the Yanks do all the work.

Its semantics, but I'm not comfortable with it characterized as a hunt. I would have preferred instead that the killing of cormorants be de-criminalized, like mice.