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Culling cormorants

ne of my favourite parts of is Mark Carwardine’s column and I often find myself in agreement. I was appalled to read that there have been authorised killings of millions of birds under special licence already and anglers want to add cormorants to that list. Anglers often catch fish apparently for ‘fun’ and not for eating, which also brings me to this point – humans are omnivores. Cormorants’ only food source is fish. I would also suggest that pollution of rivers has

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