Question 12389 — biodiversity

Summary

Mr. Christophe Proença draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature, responsible for the sea and fisheries, to the joint management of the populations of the great cormorant and the yellow eel in the rivers of the Lot. The departmental federation for fishing and the protection of the aquatic environment of Lot is indeed alerting on two major challenges for local fish biodiversity: on the one hand, the difficulties encountered in obtaining regulated exemptions from the bans on the destruction of the great cormorant, even though the wintering numbers remain at a high level and the predation exerted on fish populations is estimated at more than 85 tonnes per year in the department; on the other hand, the proposed moratorium on eel fishing yellow in fresh water, currently under consultation, which would mainly target recreational fishing, while the causes of the decline of the European eel are multiple. Indeed, the pressure exerted on the eel results in particular from the overfishing of glass eels, obstacles to migration linked to hydraulic structures, the deterioration of water quality and the disappearance of wetlands, while measures to regulate the large cormorant, strictly regulated by regulations, remain difficult to implement at the local scale. The federation emphasizes that concentrating regulatory effort solely on recreational fishing, which is already heavily regulated, would be ecologically ineffective and socially poorly perceived, if other pressures are not simultaneously addressed. The MP therefore wishes to know whether the Government intends to review the proposed moratorium on yellow eel fishing in order to integrate a global approach covering all the pressure factors weighing on the species, in particular the overfishing of glass eels, the restoration of ecological continuity and the fight against diffuse pollution. He also asks what measures are envisaged to allow, when the scientific and regulatory conditions are met, reasoned regulation of the great cormorant, in order to reconcile the maintenance of the species in a favorable conservation state and the preservation of aquatic environments and fish populations already weakened in territories such as the Lot.

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