Biodiversity in Danger - Review Cormorant licensing regime Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/biodiversity-in-danger-review-cormorant-licensing-regime.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:38 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mr Anonymous [Signature #2254] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24517383?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2025 02:11:33 UTC 24517383 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2253] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24496759?utm_medium=rss We need to stop stocking inland waters with non-native fish. This will result in less food for cormorants and their population will decrease.

]]> Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:42:42 UTC 24496759 Miss ulrike stroud [Signature #2252] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24359323?utm_medium=rss We need control of Cormorant population, they have no natural enemy in this country and they are making fish population extinct

]]> Sat, 5 Nov 2022 11:05:52 UTC 24359323 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2251] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23381481?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Nov 2019 10:43:54 UTC 23381481 Mr Ian March [Signature #2250] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23373995?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:14:38 UTC 23373995 Mr Adam Monk [Signature #2249] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23371682?utm_medium=rss Cormorants on the Ribble

]]> Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:24:51 UTC 23371682 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2248] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23370119?utm_medium=rss I fish the River Avon and surrounding lakes/gravel pits and have seen a large increase in Cormorants over the past few years. Have personally had then come to feed in the swim that I have been fishing

]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 03:27:00 UTC 23370119 Mr Jeff Head [Signature #2247] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23364608?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Nov 2019 08:38:08 UTC 23364608 Patrick Colgan [Signature #2246] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23359420?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Nov 2019 01:46:14 UTC 23359420 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2245] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23358812?utm_medium=rss Tue, 5 Nov 2019 05:13:30 UTC 23358812 Mr Adrian Green [Signature #2244] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23357217?utm_medium=rss Control of the european cormarent is essential for the survival of fish of adult age for future spawning

]]> Mon, 4 Nov 2019 02:12:02 UTC 23357217 Mr Fred Hawkins [Signature #2243] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23355624?utm_medium=rss C ormorant reduction

]]> Fri, 1 Nov 2019 05:25:13 UTC 23355624 MR MICHAEL LEONARD [Signature #2242] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23355404?utm_medium=rss Fri, 1 Nov 2019 11:14:24 UTC 23355404 Mr Kevin Legg [Signature #2241] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23352761?utm_medium=rss To control cormorants in the newbury area

]]> Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:01:10 UTC 23352761 Mr Mikw Robinson [Signature #2240] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23017059?utm_medium=rss Tue, 30 Apr 2019 04:41:42 UTC 23017059 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2239] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22667845?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:40:46 UTC 22667845 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2238] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22196615?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 May 2018 09:25:44 UTC 22196615 Mr Jon Helyer [Signature #2237] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21730028?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:50:34 UTC 21730028 Mr Gordon Miller [Signature #2236] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21644775?utm_medium=rss Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:22:47 UTC 21644775 Mr Robert Osborn [Signature #2235] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21334300?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 May 2017 06:43:51 UTC 21334300 mr William Hanson [Signature #2234] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20965844?utm_medium=rss The River Stour at Wimborne, Dorset, has been stripped of its prime roach by cormorants. Many of the few that are left bear the tell tale gouges on the flanks caused by the curved bill of these birds.

]]> Thu, 5 Jan 2017 03:22:57 UTC 20965844 mr Joshua Grinling [Signature #2233] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20370153?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:19:11 UTC 20370153 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2232] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20299375?utm_medium=rss Please put the cormorant on the General license

]]> Tue, 6 Sep 2016 07:27:53 UTC 20299375 Mr Peter Baron [Signature #2231] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20125229?utm_medium=rss Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:50:19 UTC 20125229 Mr Peter Eslick [Signature #2230] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19774335?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:59:46 UTC 19774335 Mr James Forsythe [Signature #2229] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19596978?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:13:48 UTC 19596978 mr BRIAN CROW [Signature #2228] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19595740?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Jan 2016 12:02:38 UTC 19595740 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2227] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19553772?utm_medium=rss I have seen local lakes repeatedly emptied of fish. Some of those fish took 30 years to grow to that size (not all fish species grow big) and so that's the time it would take for them to grow back following a restocking programme, but there's little point in restocking just for them to be eaten again. The current cormorant population is unsustainable.

]]> Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:13:01 UTC 19553772 Allison Minix [Signature #2226] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19532821?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Dec 2015 09:42:11 UTC 19532821 mr John hoyle [Signature #2225] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18989065?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Jun 2015 06:26:40 UTC 18989065 Ray Beauclerk [Signature #2224] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18944611?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Jun 2015 12:33:42 UTC 18944611 Mr Russ Coleman [Signature #2223] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18874544?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 May 2015 03:43:30 UTC 18874544 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2222] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18873877?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 May 2015 11:17:50 UTC 18873877 mr Trevor dunkley [Signature #2221] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18873405?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 May 2015 08:12:51 UTC 18873405 Mr Norman Westbrook [Signature #2220] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18873400?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 May 2015 08:11:11 UTC 18873400 Mr David Huth [Signature #2219] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18873324?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 May 2015 07:44:42 UTC 18873324 Mr Vincent Battams [Signature #2218] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18873298?utm_medium=rss Curently a committee member to a local angling club in Northampton which lease a park lake for fishing from the local council.
6 years ago rated as one of the best roach fisheries in the county, now 6 years on and after a survey by the EA now rated as severley depleted silver fish stocks due to cormorant predation.
Action is needed immediately and no half measures.

]]> Tue, 12 May 2015 07:33:41 UTC 18873298 Mr Lee Hazell [Signature #2217] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18602926?utm_medium=rss I have applied to shoot Cormorants for a local fishing club which I represent. The current system is woefully inadequate. Takes too long to complete applications, and I feel that N.E who generally do a great job, are almost trying to put you off applying as the forms are so lengthy and the evidence of cormorants they want is often not obtainable or subjective! It feels like you have little chance of getting a license before you even submit the application. The law needs changing or fishing will become a thing of a past as small club after small club loses members as there are no fish left in the lakes and rivers.

]]> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:50:02 UTC 18602926 Mr Simon Anthony [Signature #2216] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18602733?utm_medium=rss As an angler and general nature devotee I am truly concerned about this issue not only because of fish stocks but also the undue competition placed upon our native birds such as the grebe and kingfishers to name but a few.

]]> Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:13:46 UTC 18602733 Mrs Joanne Banks [Signature #2215] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18506770?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:11:14 UTC 18506770 Mr Robert Pearson [Signature #2214] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18494714?utm_medium=rss Tue, 3 Feb 2015 03:24:57 UTC 18494714 Mr Neil Joines [Signature #2213] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18235909?utm_medium=rss We have the same problem in France

]]> Wed, 3 Dec 2014 03:06:32 UTC 18235909 Mr Ian Hirst [Signature #2212] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18068320?utm_medium=rss I totally agree with the need for the cormorant predatation of inland waterways to be controlled via shooting and agree with the need to include this species of bird on the general license.

]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:48:28 UTC 18068320 mr Stephen Frost [Signature #2211] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797194?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:05:16 UTC 17797194 mr KEITH DAVIES [Signature #2210] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17792036?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:15:44 UTC 17792036 Mr Barry Clarke [Signature #2209] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17647465?utm_medium=rss Wed, 23 Jul 2014 03:47:06 UTC 17647465 Mr Michael Kemp [Signature #2208] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17500988?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Jun 2014 06:58:01 UTC 17500988 mr tony groucutt [Signature #2207] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17257138?utm_medium=rss 74 yrs of age .fishing since the age of 6 god only knows how many roach ive caught in my life time.but never a 2 pounder .When i retired i promised my self i would catch a 2lb Roach from the Avon. On my favourite centerpin reel.Having as lad read the story's in Creel Etc by B.V . Colonel Crow ,and the postman from Dorset. I sure hope I get a Chance .I was at a Trout fishery in Shropshire recently ,the life was nearly frightend out of me by a shotgun going off just behind me,then a Cormorant crashed into the water at my feet, The keeper realy has the right idea .

]]> Wed, 7 May 2014 04:27:22 UTC 17257138 Mr Louis Wilson [Signature #2206] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17213086?utm_medium=rss Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:51:08 UTC 17213086 mr michael vogt [Signature #2205] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17070029?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:25:03 UTC 17070029 MR Anonymous [Signature #2204] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16941245?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Mar 2014 03:38:50 UTC 16941245 mr jamie melham [Signature #2203] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16794937?utm_medium=rss Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:39:15 UTC 16794937 Mr Jeremy Parkman [Signature #2202] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16778887?utm_medium=rss This has to be the best option

]]> Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:31:43 UTC 16778887 Me Nicholas Coulthurst [Signature #2201] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16744258?utm_medium=rss Act now before fish stocks reach critical levels.

]]> Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:22:01 UTC 16744258 graham young [Signature #2200] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16735974?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Feb 2014 09:13:39 UTC 16735974 Mr Chris Brewer [Signature #2199] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16667017?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:44:54 UTC 16667017 David Keep [Signature #2198] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16620887?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:39:26 UTC 16620887 Mr Ivan Greenman [Signature #2197] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16486193?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:31:46 UTC 16486193 mr geoff holstead [Signature #2196] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16485994?utm_medium=rss as a regular angler on both still and running water I all too often witness the effects of predation ( otter as well as comorant ) and implore you to act on this matter with all urgency, as I firmly believe we are at the eleventh hour.

]]> Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:26:39 UTC 16485994 Mr Laurence Long [Signature #2195] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16177499?utm_medium=rss Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:50:36 UTC 16177499 Mr Stephen BIDDLE [Signature #2194] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15974413?utm_medium=rss Some good progress made by Mr Benyon, please keep up the good work and extend the action.

]]> Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:36:42 UTC 15974413 mr graham stone [Signature #2193] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15925888?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:59:51 UTC 15925888 Mr Will Kennedy [Signature #2192] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15778173?utm_medium=rss Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:33:27 UTC 15778173 Mr Bob Cheeseman [Signature #2191] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15724881?utm_medium=rss I have immediate concerns about the Cormorant population. I returned to fishing on a regular basis about 4 years ago. A lot has changed since I was last fishing my local rivers (over 30 years ago). The silver fish (roach, dace etc) population has been decimated to a degree that I thought was not possible. Action is required now to protect all fish species in our rivers, lakes, ponds and canals.

]]> Sun, 1 Sep 2013 01:08:50 UTC 15724881 sheridan wheeler [Signature #2190] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15724875?utm_medium=rss Sun, 1 Sep 2013 01:05:54 UTC 15724875 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2189] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15598004?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Aug 2013 04:57:14 UTC 15598004 Mr Paul Willis [Signature #2188] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15514606?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:10:07 UTC 15514606 Mr Andrew Shields [Signature #2187] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15491435?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Jul 2013 07:32:00 UTC 15491435 mr ray powell [Signature #2186] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15150250?utm_medium=rss How could anybody not agree?

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:39:42 UTC 15150250 MR OWEN MCCAFFREY [Signature #2185] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15050131?utm_medium=rss We need to address the damage to our wild and stocked fisheries as this species are out of control in numbersand are damaging the fish stocks to an unacceptable level

]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:43:29 UTC 15050131 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2184] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15008121?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:15:59 UTC 15008121 Mr Ian Wright [Signature #2183] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15005488?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Apr 2013 02:22:43 UTC 15005488 michael townsend [Signature #2182] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14943344?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:02:59 UTC 14943344 Mr Gary Humphrey [Signature #2181] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14875156?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:44:20 UTC 14875156 MR RICHARD WAGER [Signature #2180] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14860099?utm_medium=rss Sat, 9 Mar 2013 01:34:36 UTC 14860099 Mr Peter Baker [Signature #2179] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14701543?utm_medium=rss Unless something is done soon to control cormorant predation the Avon,particularly in the middle and lower reaches will cease to be a viable fishery.
I have fished the river for over forty years and since the early 1980's it has less roach and dace within it year on year.

]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:45:19 UTC 14701543 David Waggott [Signature #2178] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14682877?utm_medium=rss Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:33:39 UTC 14682877 Mrs Mary Glindon [Signature #2177] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14523268?utm_medium=rss Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:16:54 UTC 14523268 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2176] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14489744?utm_medium=rss The damage cormorants can inflict should not be underestimated. We must curtail this before irreparable damage is caused to our native biodiversity.

]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:30:24 UTC 14489744 Mr David Birtles [Signature #2175] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14437967?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:40:27 UTC 14437967 mr. David Anderson [Signature #2174] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14404309?utm_medium=rss Growing problem with Cormorants in The Great Ouse area.Little evidence of any real concern shown by EA or RSPB.

]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:53:51 UTC 14404309 mr Paul Davies [Signature #2173] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14374449?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:16:33 UTC 14374449 mr rupert weeks [Signature #2172] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14346234?utm_medium=rss excellent..we ned to make everyone understand that by keeping numbers of cormorants down it not only protects fish it also helps to ensure there is enough food for other native inland fish predators such as otters herons etc. It also has a knock on effect for frogs ducklings and toads as they are left alone more if there are enough fish for the aforementioned predators.

]]> Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:55:19 UTC 14346234 Mr Michael Humphrey [Signature #2171] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14247254?utm_medium=rss We cannot allow the devastation of our natural fish stocks to continue

]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:08:17 UTC 14247254 Mr Andrew Hill [Signature #2170] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14246741?utm_medium=rss You have my wholehearted support in the management of the Cormorant population in order to preserve biodiversity in our rivers and stillwaters.

]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:37:16 UTC 14246741 Mr Richard Lees [Signature #2169] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14229842?utm_medium=rss The cormorant problem is very real and critical on the Warwickshire/Worcestershire Avon.

]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:53:22 UTC 14229842 mr douglas havercroft [Signature #2168] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14107014?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:31:38 UTC 14107014 mr stephen smallwood [Signature #2167] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14092830?utm_medium=rss Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:33:57 UTC 14092830 Mr David Porter [Signature #2166] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14068969?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:03:08 UTC 14068969 Mr Anonymous [Signature #2165] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14059951?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Nov 2012 03:40:49 UTC 14059951 Mr David Pykett [Signature #2164] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14052257?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Nov 2012 04:00:38 UTC 14052257 Mr Nicholas Chapman [Signature #2163] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14032105?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Nov 2012 06:09:43 UTC 14032105 mr jon grant [Signature #2162] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14020241?utm_medium=rss Tue, 30 Oct 2012 02:55:00 UTC 14020241 Mr Phil Slade [Signature #2161] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14014167?utm_medium=rss Since the cormorant has arrived in my area, the fish populations have been completely devastated. These birds need to be controlled as the likes of the Kingfisher will go extinct in a few years due to the lack of food,

]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:34:59 UTC 14014167 Mr Ian Campbell [Signature #2160] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14010424?utm_medium=rss About time something was done about this it's shocking the damage these birds cause and fishery owners, fish farm owners and fishing clubs have to sit back and watch it happen because a bird with no natural predators and tens of thousands of them exist in land alone and numbers are drastically increasing is a protected species. If anyone out there has a slight interest in fishing they should be signing this petition for this generation and the generation to come. It only takes two minutes of your time and it could make a great difference.

]]> Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:20:27 UTC 14010424 Me Stuart Andrew Of the family Ross [Signature #2159] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14009229?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:24:56 UTC 14009229 mr Lee Smith [Signature #2158] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14005723?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:14:03 UTC 14005723 mr Chris Campbell [Signature #2157] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13992374?utm_medium=rss Good Work and keep it up the more people that stick together and back each other up on this the better.

]]> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:21:24 UTC 13992374 Rt. Hon. Desmond Swayne TD MP [Signature #2156] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13990470?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:51:05 UTC 13990470 Mr Michael Sadler [Signature #2155] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13955022?utm_medium=rss out of place.too much damage to fish s.tocks

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