here here, I urge everyone to sign. The more pressure we can put on the government to address this problem, the better.

I also believe the legislation was put in place to protect the european cormorant, which was endangered at the time. It’s much smaller than the common ones that are a regular sight throughout the fens on every river, drain and lake. Might be wrong mind.

Great post – IMO everyone who uses this site should sign this.

Done.

signed!
i live right next to what used to be one of the finest big roach waters in the north of england.
thanks to these godforsaken vermin there are no roach left now.
i know some smart arses will come on banging on about mans rape of the sea blah blah blah.
but if they’re not endangered anymore game on i say ~clap

dirk, i’d start banging on about mans rape of the sea, but not from a I feel sorry for cormorants viewpoint. More a I like sea fishing and the commercials take the pee kinda way. Imagine as soon as you caught a decent weight from a water some boat came along and netted every fish there, or you got down to your local commercial to find a gill net set between u and the fish lol.

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@wildinguk wrote:

dirk, i’d start banging on about mans rape of the sea, but not from a I feel sorry for cormorants viewpoint. More a I like sea fishing and the commercials take the pee kinda way. Imagine as soon as you caught a decent weight from a water some boat came along and netted every fish there, or you got down to your local commercial to find a gill net set between u and the fish lol.

have u had a drink???

Cormorants can be culled now…

@wildinguk wrote:

dirk, i’d start banging on about mans rape of the sea, but not from a I feel sorry for cormorants viewpoint. More a I like sea fishing and the commercials take the pee kinda way. Imagine as soon as you caught a decent weight from a water some boat came along and netted every fish there, or you got down to your local commercial to find a gill net set between u and the fish lol.

Nope, seriously it can be like that sometimes. People have had to stop reporting catches on the forum sites as the commercial boats will read where the fish are and go net it. And many times you can get to a beach and find a gill net strung across the end of the groins.

done.

you can cull cormorants but are restricted, a large club water i fish had a massive problem with 20-30 birds at a time on there,eventually they got a license to shoot 2 in the spring and 2 in the autumn.not really a solution to the problem

The owners should just go round early doors and shoot as many as they can find on the fishery. Go round with a boat and put them in black bags. I cannot see anybody to be found out of culling to many as it is very hard to enforce when your the only one on your land.

Done.

But it won’t change anything unfortunately!

I believe that the impact that fishery owners will have will be pretty small against the rising tide of cormorants. There are so many that killing a dozen or so is a drop in the ocean; there will be more to replace them.

The typical response to this is that there would be a few less.

I’d argue that King Canute got wet feet.