Several MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries called, on Monday 29 November, for EU measures, such as regional management plans, to tackle the problem of proliferating cormorant populations.
These birds, by consuming large quantities of fish, cause losses to the European aquaculture and fisheries sector.
The European Commission representative explained that making the cormorant “huntable”’ (by changing the species’ annex under the Birds and Habitats Directives)...