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This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: Cormorants - European Studies into Fishery Conflicts Published
And just how do we do this for rivers?
What he said. We need to create far more refuges on rivers, anyway. On my local Nene, the EA project dug out the tail of an old oxbow (which faces downstream) and encouraged more weed to grow in it. It was lifting with fry all summer.
I've been fishing a fairly big deep pit for a few years now. We had a problem with cormorants and a lack of small silver fish. It wasn't all down to cormorants, but they certainly weren't helping. We put fish refuges in first and a few years later we got a limited licence to cull cormorants. As far as I'm aware we've not come close to our limit. However, they have got sick of the big bangs and buggered off elsewhere. We still see cormorants but the black horde just fly over now. We've seen a huge upturn in silver numbers and fry recruitment is looking very good.
I hate to think of what's happening wherever the damned things are going in preference. I suspect that the local bird sanctuary gravel pit is being steadily denuded of fish.
Those heavily fished little club puddles where they remove all the snags and overhanging trees so that numpties can cast more easily can avoid cormorants because there is nearly always an angler or several on the bank - 24/7.
I am confused I thought the limit was two ?