Im a tree hugger always have been but I hunt and fish. I dont sit at home and read books all day, I dont have a university degree in biology or zoo ology but i do have a good feel for what is going on around me .I have watched them swallow every native fish in my area and wished i had a gun each time Im not sorry to say this .
I like animals and dont say that lightly the balance is off, having said that and grown up on the shores of the Big O I can tell you this the commorants need to be thinned out the population has exploded .Someone said they saw a bunch around Port credit well I can tell you that flock looked like an oil slick and by GPS was almost 1km by 1 km and they were feeding(picture locasts) they have now started hunting in the rivers people this is bad news. All these rivers are feeders for the stock of the lake.
All these bleeding hearts need to be dragged out to Toronto islands and dropped off for a day the devestation out there is phenominal words cannot explain you need to see it to believe it. The birds are out of control I dont need a degree to see this I really dont believe people at this moment in time are the reason for the decline in stocks the commorants are!
They need to be dealt with now in a very heavy handed way I dont think they should be wiped out but thinned out in a big way why does nobody want to listen to us but spend millions of dollars on expensive talent that takes years to write up something that is politically driven and dictated
TO ANYONE THAT IS LISTENING FROM THE MNR WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE WE HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM [/b]it needs to be dealt with and yep there is going to be some very unhappy people but the eco system is in danger.
JM2C