davestocker
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This appeared in the Grimsby Telegraph on 3.9.05
WHY THE NEED TO KILL?
12:30 - 03 September 2005
The Government has granted 3,000 licences (an increase from last year) to kill cormorants at fisheries and lakes.
Yet again our wildlife has to suffer as a result of a human leisure activity that not only directly kills animals as a pastime but kills and injures many more in its wake. Anglers stock lakes and reservoirs with fish.
They become an easy source of food for coastal dwelling cormorants, which - as a result of over-fishing - have been moving inland.
Anglers then complain when the birds eat the fish for their survival.
The cormorant is, in fact, a protected species as the UK is home to internationally important wintering flocks.
Fishery managers and owners are, nonetheless, granted licences to shoot a limited number to stop them eating the fish destined to be hooked by anglers.
The Moran Joint Bird Group, a partnership of fisheries, angling and conservation organisations, admits that "removing cormorants is a never-ending task, as culling simply creates space for other birds from surrounding areas to move into".
Why do some people feel the need to kill what little natural wildlife we have left in this country?
Kelly Slade, Campaigns Officer, Animal Aid.
http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/disp...yContent&sourceNode=151455&contentPK=13125195
WHY THE NEED TO KILL?
12:30 - 03 September 2005
The Government has granted 3,000 licences (an increase from last year) to kill cormorants at fisheries and lakes.
Yet again our wildlife has to suffer as a result of a human leisure activity that not only directly kills animals as a pastime but kills and injures many more in its wake. Anglers stock lakes and reservoirs with fish.
They become an easy source of food for coastal dwelling cormorants, which - as a result of over-fishing - have been moving inland.
Anglers then complain when the birds eat the fish for their survival.
The cormorant is, in fact, a protected species as the UK is home to internationally important wintering flocks.
Fishery managers and owners are, nonetheless, granted licences to shoot a limited number to stop them eating the fish destined to be hooked by anglers.
The Moran Joint Bird Group, a partnership of fisheries, angling and conservation organisations, admits that "removing cormorants is a never-ending task, as culling simply creates space for other birds from surrounding areas to move into".
Why do some people feel the need to kill what little natural wildlife we have left in this country?
Kelly Slade, Campaigns Officer, Animal Aid.
http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/disp...yContent&sourceNode=151455&contentPK=13125195