Latest reports from Denmark
- Scale and effects of intervention in Danish cormorant colonies in Denmark 1994-2008
- Attempt to reduce the number of cormorants in Ringkøbing and Nissum Fjords
Proposed Israel-Ukraine cooperation over Great Cormorants
XXIII ESRS Congress
Reinventing the Rural: Between the Social and the Natural Vaasa
17-21 August 2009
Of particular interest may be the panel on "Sustainable Fishing Communities: Transformations, Contradictions and the Challenges for Governance"
EU Cormorant Mid Winter Census 17-18th January 2009 - volunteers needed
European Parliament decision on a pan-European cormorant management
plan
WI-CRG news: "Cormorants in western Palearctic.
Distribution and numbers on a wider European scale"
Census of Great Cormorants in Slovakia, 2008
Latest news on fish refuge research.
The following paper has recently been published Russell I.C., Parrott D., Ives M.J., Goldsmith D., Fox S., Clifton-Dey D., Prickett A. & Drew T. (2008)
Reducing fish losses to cormorants using artificial fish refuges: an experimental study. Fisheries Management and Ecology 15, 189-198. If you would like a copy please contact Ian Russell directly.
Romanian colour-ringed cormorant sighted in the UK
See Recovered Cormorant Data here.
Cormorant news from Finland
The breeding population of cormorant in summer 2007 is estimated to amount to approximately 8900 couples in 29 colonies. The increase since last year was 54 % which is about the same as the average increase in the last few years. The growth was strongest in the Archipelago Sea where the population doubled to almost 3200 couples..
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The Wetland International Cormorant Research Group pan_european Cormorant breeding count: Bulgaria
accessible via this link...
Austrian National Platform - Summary of Meeting
The meeting was organized on a voluntarily basis by the national delegates. The main goal was to introduce and to improve the knowledge about the INTERCAFE project, to serve as a platform for a wider dissemination of relevant information as well as to encourage the participatory process.
Organizers: Austrian national COST-delegates
Date: 6. Sept. 2005, one day meeting (10.00h – 16.00h) with presentations and round-table discussions.
Location: BAW, Inst.f.Gewässerökologie, Fischereibiologie und Seenkunde, Mondsee, Scharfling, Austria.
Invited participants:
Representatives of all nine Austrian provincial fishery-associations, fishery related umbrella organisations and clubs (commercial fisheries, aquaculture, anglers), experienced fish biologists (Universities, research institutions), representatives and official experts from the federal ministery and provinical governments (fishery, law, nature conservation).
