{"id":9989,"date":"2020-10-27T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"its-a-human-issue-controversial-cormorant-hunt-perplexes-local-biologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/its-a-human-issue-controversial-cormorant-hunt-perplexes-local-biologists\/","title":{"rendered":"“Its a human issue”: Controversial Cormorant Hunt Perplexes Local Biologists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let nature take its course.<\/strong>
\nThat’s the message from local biologists who are perplexed with the cormorant hunt that opens next week. The provincial government announced this summer that a fall hunt of cormorants across Ontario will take place Sept. 15 to Dec. 31.
\nThe bag limit on these birds will be 15 per person \u2014 but they\u2019re not edible, according to biologists who say they have many issues with next week\u2019s hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019m frustrated. I don\u2019t understand it, to be frank,\u201d he said [Dr. Steve Cooke – Carleton University<\/strong>]. \u201cIt\u2019s not linked to an evidence-based approach. It\u2019s inconsistent with ethical hunting behaviour, which is something else they promote as an organization. The idea that flesh should not be wasted \u2014 if we\u2019re going to kill things, then we eat them. Myself and others in the scientist community are certainly scratching our heads, baffled as to why a historically science-based organization has taken up this cause.\u201d Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let nature take its course. That’s the message from local biologists who are perplexed with the cormorant hunt that opens next week. The provincial government announced this summer that a fall hunt of cormorants across Ontario will take place Sept. 15 to Dec. 31. The bag limit on these birds will be 15 per person \u2014 but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9996,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}