River Loire - Orleans

[Hugh Bailey]

The town stretch - has a small cormorant problem. I was having a wander to try to find somewhere to fish 2 or 3 weeks ago. The main flow was too strong so I walked over the bridge to the calmer section downstream of a wier and found this. Didn't bother fishing - can't imagine there was much left.


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[nicepix]

Bl00dy hell!

If I see six on the Vienne I think its a plague

 

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[binka]

Blimey, I haven't seen numbers like those since I last visited Gunthorpe on the Trent where the damn things sit on the weir booms drying their wings out with the surrounding trees black with 'em

 

[peter crabtree]

Must be solid with fish there Hugh ....

 

[john step]

I thought it was just with the problemmg:

 

[nicepix]

When I used to rent a cottage on a farm estate that bordered the River Vienne I regularly saw the Fisheries Officers go down to the river shooting cormorants. And as far as I know they are effectively on the 'General Licence' as we know it, in that they can be shot at any time of year.

 

[Hugh Bailey]

It looked a nightmare. I'm an RSPB member (at the moment) but this sort of thing cannot possibly go on. I guess man has created the problem with over fishing etc.(I don't remember seeing any cormorants in the 60s) but I cannot contemplate this happening here.