Coming next year:
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/o...season-1130829
9 1/2 month season with bag limit of 50 per day, no possession limit and an amendment to allow the meat to spoil.
Sounds good to me - shoot em all.
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Coming next year:
https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/o...season-1130829
9 1/2 month season with bag limit of 50 per day, no possession limit and an amendment to allow the meat to spoil.
Sounds good to me - shoot em all.
Easy now. It is still a proposal not regulation.
this is not the first time this has been tried. i think it even made it to the second or third reading a year or two ago before all bills got scrapped for whatever reason. either way 100% support this. wonder how to hunt them ? likely be out of a boat like diver ducks, they're active all times of the day. I wonder how the rec boaters will react to guys blasting shotguns at 11am on the water. time will tell.
Best news ever. Have been seeing thrm in the grand river in Caledonia. They are newish to the area and they need to be gone-ish. Crossing my fingers for a start to that season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Species8472
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Can you eat them
There are recipes, but I was thinking maybe you could burn them. Three pieces of wood and a couple Cormorants in the stove should burn for awhile..Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhite
You coukd layer them like I did with wood and bags of coal out west. Green wood on the bottom of the stove( four by three by four foot box), two bags of coal on top, coal oil, topped off with one layer of green wood a layer of dry wood a splash of coal oil on the top wood and lighter up. The stove would burn for about a month to five weeks in a Northern Alberta winter.
From what I understand, this would open up a hunting season, here in the north, that doesn't exist right now. Currently, a small game license is not valid during the summer months. I can't remember the exact dates, something like June 14th to late August I believe. Therefore, if this proposal goes through, it would be the only hunting season available in those summer months. That's something that I would like to see happen. I always thought that disallowing hunting during the summer months, up here in the north, was dumb, when the population is much denser in the south and, they are allowed to hunt in the summer. I don't buy the bull crap that vacationers in the north are the issue or, that the bush is denser up here, making it more difficult to see what you're shooting at.
That is so neat about that type stove and the theory behind the layering. I have never heard of it before. Do you have any info on them? Just curious. TksQuote:
Originally Posted by Snowwalker
Great idea but 30 yrs. too late, not rocket science to figure out where all the baitfish went from lake huron and Georgian bay. Would see packs of cormorants that would cover 5 acres on lake huron back in the 1980's and 90's
Seems weird that they were protected and couldn't be shot, and now it is going to be a free for all. Could it be because of a new government that actually assessed the facts? Also good that they are not being treated as migratory birds, therefore no federal license needed.
All those birds could not exist if they did not have a large healthy population of fish to eat.
If they ate all the fish, they would die or forced go to other lakes.
So, if they continue to be in the same areas year after year, it can only mean there must be a lot of fish for them to eat.
Check out Lake of the Woods or Rainy Lake---both have had bazillions of cormorants for 30+ years.
Both lakes remain excellent fisheries for walleye, pike, perch, bass...you name it.
The cormorants just prove there are a lot of fish in the lake. If you can't catch what you want...change you methods.
Cormorants have been proven to have a very detrimental effect on Loon populations let alone the fish stocks and the ruination of the local flora. That's all I need to know. Plus they keep spreading, there never used to be any around here in the last century. Shoot them all I say. :)
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holy moly!!! I can't believe it!
Did Santa came early to the MNR policy makers this year and give someone a BRAIN!
Only 20 yrs too late. I'll need a bigger tackle box for the shells.
Does Big Jon Downriggers make interchangeable gun holders.
This is almost as good as those Texas helicopter pig hunts!
Also I wonder if the charters will offer cormorant shooting to go along with the fishing experience!
Is hunting allowed in Burlington bay by the skyway?
Hell I might even set up on the skyway! :silly::silly::whacked::whacked:
Best pass shooting in the province.Quote:
Originally Posted by SK33T3R
One of our trucks hit/got hit by about three of them on the skyway. Big dents, broken windshield, and the stink.
They have completely decimated some islands in the west end of Erie, as well as their roost areas along the lakes and bays. It’s not just the fish predation issues.....Quote:
Originally Posted by johny
HahahahhahahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by snowwalker
You're partially right, IMO. There's a huge lag of time between when the predator peaks and theprey declines. The cormorants will emigrate into interior lakes like Algonquin Park area before you see a decline in their numbers across Ontario. It could be decades after the fish prey decline before you see the cormorants decline. I wouldn't assume there's lots of baitfish still out there just because the local cormorants haven't declined yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by johny
They might, as long as there is no forward motion of the boat ? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SK33T3R
The heck with the boat, just stand on the island. Either way you can bet there would be a lot of rubber neckers, and calls about guys with machine guns shooting at cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycee
If there is no food--you die.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanO
Or you move to somewhere that has food.