Over ten years ago we secured the European Parliament’s support for a pan-European cormorant management plan. However, a number of EU Member States have been blocking to put such a plan in place. We continue to push that issue.
Over the years, our cormorant lobbying efforts have increased the awareness and understanding of the scale of the problem. We now see positive cormorant measures in place, or to be put in place soon in some EU Member States. That would not have happened without our continued efforts.
Together, EFTTA and EAA arguably is the most knowledgeable entity on cormorant issues in Europe, and in close contact with external fisheries-cormorant experts and scientists.
- On November 24 & 25 of 2022, the EU Commission together with a few NGOs (EAA included) had organized a big seminar on “Fish & Rivers”. For the first time ever, the Commission qualified the expansion of the Cormorant population as a “problem”!
- In December 2023, a funding has been secured to do a “Draft European-wide cormorant management plan”.
Finally things start looking good on that topic!
