Please remind me what we birders pay towards waterfowl and habitat
conservation, as opposed to duck hunters and so on.
On Tuesday, November 20, 2018 02:59:01 PM EST, Barrett,
Glenn (EC) via ONTBIRDS <birdalert@ontbirds.ca> wrote:
I have received permission from the ONTBIRDS Coordinator to post this message.
FYI - Yesterday a proposal to create an open hunting season of cormorants from
15 Mar to 31 Dec was posted on the Environmental Registry – bag limit of 50/day
and NO possession limit.
The statement that it will “not affect sustainability” seems to lack scientific
proof given that hunting will occur during breeding season, and cormorants will
be disturbed from breeding colonies by the hunting. Not to mention the fact
that almost all DCCO colonies contain several other colonial waterbird species
(ie. Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Common Tern, Caspian Tern, Black-crowned
Night Herons, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, White Pelicans …) who will also
be disturbed during their breeding season by this hunting activity.
Comments can be submitted until 3 Jan 2019.
http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTM2NTE1&statusId=MjA4MDQ4&language=en
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