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Old 22-02-2012, 10:25
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BBC News - Thousands sign petition calling for cormorant cull

handed in - will it do any good

What do you think?
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Messrs Harrop, Salter & Miles on the Avon and on the Beeb about them here - BBC News - Thousands sign petition calling for cormorant cull
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Old 22-02-2012, 10:55
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I have just invented THE OTTER CANNON.

Simply load with powder, push the otter down the barrel, quickly (and I mean quickly) pack with wadding, take aim at the cormorant of your choice and FIRE! Two birds with one stone so to speak.
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I thought their numbers went up naturally , not after they became a protected species in 1981 as this link professes , is that true ? Sheds a whole new light on a lot of things.

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Will shooting work ? Being a Townie I imagine you shoot one and the rest fly off ?
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I thought their numbers went up naturally , not after they became a protected species in 1981 as this link professes , is that true ? Sheds a whole new light on a lot of things.

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Will shooting work ? Being a Townie I imagine you shoot one and the rest fly off ?

We country folk have ways

48 of us with shot guns - well you can't shoot pheasants till the 12th
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Old 22-02-2012, 11:13
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Will shooting work ? Being a Townie I imagine you shoot one and the rest fly off ?
Not if you use the proper tool, e.g. AK47
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Not if you use the proper tool, e.g. AK47
Thinking more along the lines of M242 Bushmaster
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I've just come back from my local tackle shop and nobody has bothered to pick up the petition form left there that's full of signatures.
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what do you think Paul?
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That "Paul" me? If it is, I have long been firmly in favour of a cormorant cull, ever since I saw Tom Williams and his fellow Estate riverkeepers and gamekeepers wage war on them in the late 1960s to mid 1970s on the Avon below Salisbury - the great old riverside tree that had for many years been known by the local villlagers and the estate rods as The Cormorant Tree ceased to be one. A "do-able" cull, cormorants, in my opinion, that will get the result required without seeing Anglers pilloried in the media and bricked on the bank (which they would surely be if they went after the 'O' word).
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