Culling does not mean a total

Monday 10th November 2008, 2:59PM GMT.

From Peter Bryan.
THE Société Jersiaise has always been, in my experience, lukewarm if not negative to any suggestion of culling in our reservoirs, despite damage to the fish population.

Mr Dryden (JEP, 5 November) overstates the case. Culling does not mean the wholesale destruction of the species, but a reduction to a more reasonable number.

Freshwater fishermen, who have existed as long as Mr Dryden’s precious cormorants, are entitled to enjoy their pleasure which entails the stocking of fish, this latter not being done to ensure the survival of excess numbers of predators.

Mr Dryden would do better to inject his energies in what he correctly sees as the real problem, the overfishing of the sea.
Old Lawn House,
Pontac,
St Clement.