Predation
Our Fishery Management Advisors, who are funded by the Environment Agency’s income from rod licences, 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
- Mink control
- Advice on the impact of seals on freshwater fish stocks
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.
