La cormorant population in Lombardy it has increased exponentially, to the point that production and production are in danger professional and sport fishing activities. This is why the Regional Council has decided to authorize a selective control of the animal in the water bodies of the provinces of Varese, Como, Lecco, Bergamo and Brescia. The green light came after the proposal of Fabio Rolfi, regional councilor for agriculture. “The measure - explained Rolfi - aims to protect fish populations of naturalistic value and of greater interest for fishing.
It is a derogation shared with the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research and much awaited by Lombard fishermen ". How will the intervention take place? The culling period will run from 17 November 2018 to 15 March 2019 (overall they are five months). We are talking about almost a thousand cormorants, to be precise 923, that is 10% of the individuals counted in the Lombard annual census.
Monitoring will make it possible to never exceed the maximum number of specimens. Based on what emerged from the latest estimates, a quantity is estimated in quantitative terms average of fish ingested daily by the cormorant of 500 grams, a situation that greatly penalizes the sector and cannot last much longer.