Whay arent cormorants and ####pidg...er...seagulls

[Wrong Way]

listed under the Ontario hunting regs as protected? And on that note...WHY are they protected?

 

[Calum]

Because if they had an open season on sh!thawks some hunters my get confused and shoot up Parliament.

 

[Fall Guy]

Why can't we hunt bear in the spring?

There are some cormorants on my lake and they are wary buggers. You can't get near them.

 

[LeePeterson]

Why can't we hunt sundays everywhere?

 

[Wrong Way]

Yeah yeah...let me re-phrase the question, as apparently the inferition is not to obvious.

WHERE does it state that you can't shoot these birds?

 

[Calum]

This has come up here before, I believe it was mentioned that they are in the protected species act.

 

[brianp]

Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994.

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/M-7.01/text.html

Edited to add : That's where gulls are protected. I see no mention of Cormorants.

 

[Duffy]

The Alberta hunting regulations basically say "These birds can be hunted, all others cannot". Cormorants are among the "all others".

Why would you want to hunt cormorants (if you do want to)?

Robin down under

P.S. In Alberta in a special area Fish & Wildlife has a crew marking and painting cormorant eggs with cooking oil which kills the embrio. The female bird will continue to sit on them till it is too late to nest again with new eggs. This is to reduce the cormorant pop. in the area as part of a fish management experiment.

 

[Skippy]

It wouldn't be sp much hunting as killing the crmorants. THey're a terrible nuisance and I'd love to be legally alowed to pick the filthy things off of my lake.

 

[huntingike]

I have a special kill/scare permit from the province this year for cormorants. It was issued as a means of saving trout/smelt/baitfish etc in a couple watersheds. It is a BLAST, being able to legally eliminate some of the filthy ba#@&#ds. Getting kinda expensive on the ammo .
Almost as much fun as duck hunting,

 

[mg34]

if a shag lands in my trout pond the only thing he is going to get is # 4, no questions asked.