Fishery Management Advisors
Our Fishery Management Advisors can help you protect your fishery from predation with site visits and bespoke advice on:
- Improving refuge for fish from predation
- Modern, effective non-lethal scaring methods
- Individual & Area based Cormorant control licence applications
- Coordination of action through ‘Area based’ licences
- Monitoring bird numbers and evidencing of the impacts of predation
- How to protect fisheries from otter predation, including advice about fencing
- The Legal and humane trapping and removal of otters from fenced fisheries
Contact our Fishery Management Advisors
Richard Bamforth: 07904 041518 - North West, North East, Yorkshire and Humber, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, West Midlands
From Lancaster, Richard graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a degree in Countryside Management. His subsequent career has spanned habitat & water management for a large Water Company, project manager for a Heritage Lottery Project which included working with farmers, other land owners and government bodies and worked with sporting landowners and conservation organisations. A keen trout and coarse angler, he also enjoys taking family fishing.
Jake Davoile: 07949 703206 - South West, South East, London, South Midlands, Eastern Region of England
Jake has extensive ‘hands on experience’ in reducing cormorant numbers in circumstances where lethal control was not possible on a reservoir through extensive research and practical application. A graduate of the University of Birmingham in Environmental Science, he specialised in freshwater ecology and the habitat requirements of fish. A keen coarse angler, recent captures include a stalked brace of carp at 35 and 40lb as well as an 8lb 12oz chub.
