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Article: Black death; Why anglers break the law to shoot cormorants.(Sport)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1996
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Anglers are taking the law into their own hands and illegally shooting a fish-eating bird that has been controversially labelled as the Black Plague!
The cormorant is a large diving bird that traditionally lived in and around rocky seashores.
However, many of them have moved inland to feed on lakes, reservoirs and rivers and that's causing a major rift between anglers and conservationists.
There are believed to be around 19,000-20,000 cormorants in the UK, with perhaps half living on inland lakes and waterways and feeding on our native fish ...