The impact on wetland ecosystems
We report the words of the MEP Anna Cisint in her note sent from Brussels: "With a targeted question, co-signed by her colleague Aldo Patriciello, the Friulian MEP Anna Maria Cisint asked the European Commission what legislative actions and when it intends to take to resolve the problem of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), a fish-eating bird that is continually increasing in number and has been causing problems for fishing and biodiversity for some time now. "The impact of the cormorant on fish populations and on humid ecosystems has seriously worsened: in Italy the species is continually increasing and has begun to expand at high altitudes along waterways and Alpine lakes".
Unapplied Exceptions
“In the Italian lagoons, extensively producing organic fish has become uneconomical. Also paying the price are fish species of high environmental value such as grayling and eel. The exemptions for extraordinary collection remain unapplied or applied inconsistently and in any case insufficiently and the bureaucratic delays as well as the ideological battles of some categories to the detriment of biodiversity, worsen the situation.
The legislation to be changed
“In the meantime, the ecological damage is constantly increasing. I have therefore asked for the possibility of intervening directly on the annexes of the Birds Directive in order to make the species huntable in all member states. I recall that for the wolf the European Council has given the green light to the modification of the protection regime, similar action could also be taken for the constantly increasing avifauna, such as the cormorant. I would like to underline that without rapid and concrete legislative actions the biodiversity itself, which we want to preserve so much, will suffer, as well as a very important part of the fishing sector, extensive aquaculture” (Source: Secretariat of the Hon. Cisint).
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