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Ontario's cormorant crisis

Half a million cormorants are raiding your local fishery, decimating shoreline habitat, threatening water quality and diminishing your property values. Ontario's cormorant crisis is an ecological disaster in the making. It has been compared to a tsumani with dire consequences of unparalleled proportions for fish and habitat.

How bad is the cormorant crisis? Biologically speaking, it's out of control. Provincially, cormorant numbers are 250-times historic population records.

Each cormorant eats a minimum of one-pound of fish per day; in other words, it takes about three yellow perch to feed the cormorants' voracious daily appetite. In Ontario, the net effect is over 42 million pounds of fish consumed by cormorants each year. Worse than what cormorants take is what they leave behind - that is, only the skeletons of mature shoreline trees. Cormorant droppings are so toxic they have destroyed thousands of miles of precious shoreline habitat.

O.F.A.H. represents YOU!

Given the considerable environmental damage caused by these birds, Ontario's cormorant crisis is much more than an angling issue - yet the O.F.A.H. is the only provincial wildlife organization that's actually doing something about it.

Anybody of who cares about water quality, habitat protection and local fishing opportunities has the O.F.A.H. to thank for its leadership in demanding cormorant management.

Politics vs. science

Unfortunately, sensible solutions to cormorant management have come under fire from media-savvy animal rights extremists who are more interested in protests than actually doing anything positive to protect the birds, trees, flora and fauna they claim to represent.

Recently, the animal rights extremists mobilized their members and threw a costly wrench into this year's cormorant control plan. Despite five full years of study and ample scientific support for cormorant control measures, the government continues to ride the fence on this very serious environment issue.

Shouldn't the government be listening to YOU ?

Your help is urgently needed

We need your voice in O.F.A.H. membership to help demand cormorant control - before its too late. Your O.F.A.H. Membership is a powerful statement (it's another vote) that YOUR FEDERATION will deliver to political decision makers.

If you agree that the cormorant crisis has gone too far in your community, care enough to join the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters.