The cormorant population in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district has recovered. The 80 to 100 centimeter tall bird reproduces splendidly and is increasingly causing problems.
An animal needs up to half a kilogram of fish per day - and it likes to help itself from ponds, lakes and rivers. The birds may explicitly be hunted within a radius of 200 meters from standing water. The relationship between fish-eating predators, the so-called predators, and the fish is no longer balanced, says a fishing association chairman. The Ammerland fishing association only recently found out what happens when a corm orant can do whatever it wants to a brown trout, says its chairman Richard Nßlein Sühmerhamer. The fish are underwater and are therefore perceived differently by the public, says the association's chairman Florian Herzinger, who is also battling an image problem. The cormOrant is rarely seen around the 43 ponds of the Eglinger Aumühle fish farm. But the gray heron – just as fond of fish but less aggressive – is a constant guest, says office manager Monika Holzer.