Do you support a cormorant hunt?

[remkindaguy]

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

[delmer]

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.

[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.

[sawbill]

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.

[Snowwalker]

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.

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

[oaknut]

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.

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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[fishermccann]

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.

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

[mosquito]

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.

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.

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

[longpointer]

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.

[ninepointer]

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.