Adam Price
New Member
Hi All,
My colleague Trevor Harrop, and I co front the Avon Roach Project in Hampshire, which aims to reinstate a self-sustaining population of roach to the Avon and attempt to halt the decline that has persisted over the last three decades.
As an accompaniment to this we have been compelled to help form a coalition of interested parties, in a cohesive drive to do something about the biggest threat to our roach and indeed all other inland fish species, a foreign invasive species of cormorant from mainland Europe, named (carbo sinensis) whose numbers now stand at some 23,000 wintering individuals.
In January 2011 Defra announced a forthcoming review of the cormorant licensing system. So we are pleading for your help in lobbying, environment Minister, Richard Benyon, to have carbo sinensis placed on the General licence, providing river keepers and fishery owners, with an effective way of protecting their assets.
You can help us by signing our on-line petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/cormorants-biodiversity-in-danger.html or by visiting us at http://www.avonroachproject.co.uk/ and following the cormorant link.
Together, we can create change, alone we don't have much hope, so please help.
Thank You
Budgie Price
My colleague Trevor Harrop, and I co front the Avon Roach Project in Hampshire, which aims to reinstate a self-sustaining population of roach to the Avon and attempt to halt the decline that has persisted over the last three decades.
As an accompaniment to this we have been compelled to help form a coalition of interested parties, in a cohesive drive to do something about the biggest threat to our roach and indeed all other inland fish species, a foreign invasive species of cormorant from mainland Europe, named (carbo sinensis) whose numbers now stand at some 23,000 wintering individuals.
In January 2011 Defra announced a forthcoming review of the cormorant licensing system. So we are pleading for your help in lobbying, environment Minister, Richard Benyon, to have carbo sinensis placed on the General licence, providing river keepers and fishery owners, with an effective way of protecting their assets.
You can help us by signing our on-line petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/cormorants-biodiversity-in-danger.html or by visiting us at http://www.avonroachproject.co.uk/ and following the cormorant link.
Together, we can create change, alone we don't have much hope, so please help.
Thank You
Budgie Price
