Abstract
In Denmark, the conflict between fisheries and bird protection has been well known for decades. The conflict is based on the fact that the numbers of cormorants, feeding from the Danish coastal and freshwater areas have dramatically increased since protection measures in the early 1980s. Both commercial and recreational fishing organizations claim that the high density of cormorants is a threat not only to their fishing activities, but for the whole ecosystem. The mitigation of this conflict is partly institutionalized, because a group of stakeholders, managers and experts regularly meet to debate and agree on national cormorant management plans. In the ongoing debate, scientific evidence has been shown to play an important role. In this chapter, the background, the legislation, the economics and the politics concerning the management of this conflict is described and discussed.
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This work was financed by the EU 5th Framework Program (5th FP) Project “FRAP” (Development of a procedural Framework for Action Plans to Reconcile conflicts between large vertebrate conservation and the use of biological resources: fisheries and fish-eating vertebrates as a model case), contract number EVK 2-CT-2002-00142-FRAP.
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Jepsen, N., Olesen, T. (2013). Cormorants in Denmark. In: Klenke, R., Ring, I., Kranz, A., Jepsen, N., Rauschmayer, F., Henle, K. (eds) Human - Wildlife Conflicts in Europe. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34789-7_8
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