Alūksne faces a bird-and-beaver drawback / Article

The Lake and River Management Agency of the municipality “ALJA” is positioned in Alūksne Pilssala (Castle Island). A big fowl might be seen diving into the lake every so often by means of the window of the workplace of the company’s director, Māris Lietuvietis. It is a cormorant, which has been favoring Lake Alūksne’s fish menu for the previous few years.

Lietuvietis mentioned the primary cormorants arrived about eight years in the past. They have been 5-10 {couples} at first, however proper now round 300 birds are arriving in Alūksne each spring.

The largest drawback is that these birds not solely eat a major quantity of fish however injure much more fish with their sharp beaks. “His beak is an abnormally sharp weapon, he punches through the fish. It’s like a hook,” mentioned Lietuvietis.

One cormorant a day eats fish at its personal weight, even barely extra, which is one and a half to 2 kilograms.

“The calculation is simple: if 300 birds a day each eat fish in their weight, they are already 300 kilograms [of fish]. If they even live here for 4-5 months, they are tons, of course,” Lietuvietis mentioned.

Similarly, in Alūksne, like in lots of different cities, devastation comes from beavers. They had already performed their work on the common recreation spot “Crooked Birch.” The remaining two bushes at the moment are lined however the largest ache is over the scenic Palace Park, the place the beavers have additionally begun working.

“The devastation is already one that qualifies as severe damage,” mentioned Druvis Tomsons, Alūksne Municipality Council vice chairman.

“Townspeople also often ask questions – if a person wants to cut off an old alder by their house, they have to coordinate it, but the beaver does it without permission and slams all the trees in a row,” Tomsons mentioned.

Local amendments to the Hunting Law present that if sport animals endanger public order and security or trigger injury, searching in city territory is permitted in accordance with the procedures specified by the native authorities. But Tomsons factors out that every place has its personal specifics to think about.

“There’s also a part of the army in the city, we also have to coordinate with them what they’re saying about someone being in the park area here with a gun,” Tomsons mentioned.

Permission to hunt within the metropolis will not imply everybody who’s a hunter and has searching weapons can do it now.

“The law of hunting is at the heart of everything. It’s not going to be like anyone now shooting through their third-foor window at crows rummaging the garbage can. Absolutely both the safe shots and the areas will be marked. Hunting moments will be announced. Everything will be organized with extra security because it’s a city,” Tomsons mentioned.

Amendments to the binding guidelines, which is able to lay down the procedures for the searching of animals or birds that trigger hurt within the metropolis, are anticipated to be adopted as early as this autumn.

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