Fishermen Petition for Right to Kill
Cormorants on the Sella River
- Each bird consumes "between 400 to 500 grams of fish a day"
- The Angler's Society is releasing 200,000 trout spawn this week

Source: El Comercio, Irene García, July 13, 2007

Local fishermen are describing the cormorant as one of the biggest threats to the biodiversity of the Sella River. They are petitioning for the bird to be declared an invasive species when it is found in the upper portion of the Sella River, where its population has been increasing. "It is a maritime species, but population pressures are pushing it up the river," said the secretary of the angler's society El Esmerillón, Juanjo Peruyero, who maintains that the government of the principality must take "drastic action".