Ontario announces annual doublecrested cormorant fall hunting season


Ontario government opens 'fall harvest' on cormorant — Lindsay Advocate

Ontario's government has passed a new hunting regulation that will allow hunters who hold small game permits - that's approximately 197,000 hunters - to kill up to 15 cormorants a day. The new hunting season will run from September 15 to December 31 - a total of 111 days.


Lake Ontario cormorants gobble round gobies, fewer sport fish, study

Cormorant hunt lacks scientific basis, 51 experts say in open letter to Ontario minister. The group has already managed to get some concessions from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.


Avithera Great Cormorant

In July 2020, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry announced the controversial hunt, allowing hunters with an outdoors card and small game licence to kill up to 15 birds a day from.


DoubleCrested Cormorant Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters

A double-crested cormorant surfaces after catching dinner. The Ontario ministry of natural resources and forestry announced a 'fall harvest' of cormorants this year. A hunter with a small game.


Great Cormorant by R Thew BirdGuides

In Ontario, it's open season on cormorants. But is the hunt based on science? By Emma McIntosh | News, Politics | August 13th 2020 Many people don't like double-crested cormorants, but scientists and advocates say the birds have been unfairly maligned. Photo courtesy Gail Fraser Climate journalism is urgent.


Those Incredible Cormorants Bird Canada

STATEMENT: Bird Studies Canada (BSC) expresses its deep concern regarding the proposal to establish a hunting season for the Double-crested Cormorant in Ontario through amendment to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act and supporting regulations. As a science-based conservation organization, with decades of experience monitoring bird.


Doublecrested Cormorant in Burlington, Ontario. Birds of Ontario

The cormorant is a striking, dark bird that perches on rocks and cliffs. They live in large colonies across the continent. They're seen negatively by many of their human neighbours, but some.


What to do with cormorants? Ontario says shoot them Cottage Life

The cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae) is a family of predominantly black birds with hooked, laterally compressed bills, naked, coloured skin on the throat and noticeably stiff tail feathers. Highly adapted to an aquatic environment (eg, all toes are connected by a web), cormorants are awkward on land.


Lake Ontario Cormorants Birds in forums

The Ontario ministry announced the hunt on July 31, calling it a "fall harvest," and said it will allow a hunter with an outdoors card and small game licence to kill up to 15 birds a day from Sept.


Doublecrested Cormorant Humber Bay Park (Toronto, Canada) 2005

Ontario's new cormorant hunt is welcome news to anglers, hunters, and recreational boaters, as well as shoreline property owners. But for the hunt to have any real impact on mitigating the ecological mess caused by high concentrations of these fish-devouring birds, there needs to be buy-in from hunters.


Doublecrested Cormorant Bird Photography Ornithology

Cormorants have been vilified for centuries. A European settler in 1634 objected that cormorants "destroy abundance of small fish." Consider the numbers: If a thousand small game hunters achieved the daily bag limit of 15 birds per day for 10 days, this would eliminate the entire breeding population of cormorants in Ontario.


Ontario's Newest Game Bird Should We Be Hunting Cormorants

A Facebook page dedicated to Ontario cormorant hunters, shows some are concerned about mistaking these birds for other species. (Ontario Cormorant Hunters/Facebook) Hobson is urging the OFAH to change course, and request that the provincial government end the cull. On its website, the OFAH describes itself as an organization with a "passion.


Cormorant Hunt Proposed in Ontario Door County Pulse

Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large birds, with body weight in the range of 0.35-5 kilograms (0.77-11.02 lb) and wing span of 60-100 centimetres (24-39 in). The majority of species have dark feathers. The bill is long, thin and hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes.


Ontario announces annual doublecrested cormorant fall hunting season

Ontario's Newest Game Bird: Should We Be Hunting Cormorants? — Subarctic Angling On July 30th, 2020, the Ontario government passed into law a new hunting season for a species that has long been seen as a nuisance to…


Murfs Wildlife Great Cormorant

On Sept. 15, Ontario allowed a hunt of the large fish-eating birds, after the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry concluded the cormorants were harming fish stocks and damaging natural.


Great Cormorant by R Thew BirdGuides

History Fact Sheet Double-crested Cormorants in Ontario History Double-crested Cormorants are not new to Ontario; they are known to have been a resident of Lake of the Woods since 1798. The earliest nesting record for cormorants in Ontario is from Black Bay in Lake Superior in 1920.

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