Cormorant Documents

Related to cormorants	Double-Crested Cormorant	Great Cormorant	Pygmy Cormorant	European Shag	Other cormorants
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	Environmental contamination	Impact management
		Population data

Related to cormorants

Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds (02/04/1979) - [English - Italiano]

Convention 82/461/EEC on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals - [English - Italiano]

EIFAC Working Party on Bird Predation. Status report for the intersessional period 1998-2000. Compiled by: E. Staub. [download .pdf 29 KB]

Double-Crested Cormorant

Management plans

Lake Ontario. [.pdf] -

Final Environmental Impact Statement Double-crested Cormorant Management in the United States. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Pp. 208.

Final Environmental Assessment of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Action to issue a migratory bird depredation permit for the take of Cormorants and Gulls on Lake Champlain Islands, Vermont. [link - .pdf]

Proposed depredation order for the Double-crested Cormorant. 1997.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html (Click on Federal Register, select Volume 1997, enter "cormorant" as a Search Term, click on Submit, scroll to Proposed Depredation Order, and click on preferred option).

Establishment of a depredation order for the Double-crested Cormorant. 1998. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html (Click on Federal Register, select Volume 1998, enter "cormorant" as a Search Term, click on Submit, scroll to Establishment of a Depredation Order, and click on preferred option).

  A Science-Based Initiative to Manage Double-Crested Cormorant Damage to Southern Aquaculture. Glahn J.F., Tobin M.E. & Blackwell B.F. (September 2000). [.pdf]

Canadian Wildlife Service. Policy for the Issuance of Scare Permits for the Aquaculture Industry. (Policy Effective 9/1/2000). [.pdf]

Cormorant - fish relationships

Cormorants and their impacts on fish. 1995. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Office of Migratory Bird Management. http://migratorybirds.fws.gov/issues/cormorants.html

Cormorants and environmental contamination

Weseloh D. V. & B. Collier. 1996. The rise of the Double-crested Cormorant on the Great Lakes: winning the war against contaminants. Environment Canada. http://www.cciw.ca//glimr/data/cormorant-fact-sheet/intro.html

Great Cormorant

European Union Directive

[Français] Directive modifiée 79/409/CEE du Conseil. Objet: retirer la sous-espèce continentale du grand cormoran (Phalocrocorax carbo sinensis) de l'annexe I.

[English] - Commission modifies the "Birds" Directive with respect to the Great Cormorant DN: IP/97/718 Date: 1997-07-30

Management plans

Denmark

1) Skov- og Naturstyrelsen 1992. Forvaltningsplan for skarven i Danmark. - Miljøministeriet, Skov- og Naturstyrelsen. [English summary - résume en Français]

2) Skov- og Naturstyrelsen 2004. Midtvejsevaluering af forvaltningsplan for Skarv i Danmark. - Miljøministeriet, Skov- og Naturstyrelsen.

Sweden

Naturvårdsverket 2000. Förvaltningsplan för mellanskarv och storskarv. Rapport 5261. Stockholm 2002.

Switzerland (1995) [resume en Français]

Impact management

Link to a Research Center of the Walloon Region (Belgium) with an interesting report (downloadable) of a study aiming at inquiring fish farmers in southern Belgium and making a synthesis about Cormorant conflict (and possible solution) in Wallon region. [Français]

Population data

Wintering numbers and distribution in Italy (1991-2000) [Italiano] - Baccetti at al. 2002. Biologia e Conservazione della Fauna, vol. 111.

Pygmy Cormorant

Management & action plans

ACTION PLAN FOR THE PYGMY CORMORANT (P. pygmeus) IN EUROPE. 1996. Compiled by: A.J. CRIVELLI (Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, France), T. NAZIRIDES (University of Thessaloniki, Greece), H. JERRENTRUP (Society for Protection of Nature and Ecodevelopment, Greece). Prepared by BirdLife International on behalf of the European Commission. [open / download file .pdf 200 KB]

National Action Plan for the Pygmy cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus) in Greece. 1999. Compiled by: S. KAZANTZIDIS & T. NAZIRIDES. WWF Greece, Hellenic Ornithological Society, Society for the Protection of Prespa. Thessaloniki. [open / download file .pdf 417 KB]

The Pygmy Cormorant in Bulgaria. Status of the population. Action plan. 2000. Compiled by Nikolov H.H., Marin S.M. & Darakchiev A.I. Published by Green Balkans Federation of Nature-Conservation NGOs. 160 Shesti Septemviri Blvd. Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria.

European Shag

Management & action plans

Species Action Plan for the Mediterranean Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii in Europe. 1999. Compiled by: Aguilar J. S. & Fernadez G. Prepared by BirdLife International on behalf of the European Commission. [open / download file .pdf 64 KB]

Other Cormorants

Management & action plans

Recovery plan for Chartham Island Shag and Pitt Island Shag. 2001-2011. Published by Department of Conservation. P.O. Box 10-420 Wellington, New Zealand. June 2001. [open / download file .pdf 144 KB]