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Professional fishermen counter cormorants

Fishermen say their profession might be endangered by the increased number of cormorants on Lake Neuchâtel that are protected by environmentalists. (TSR/swissinfo.ch)

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Initiative calls for protection of fish

This content was published on It also calls for fishing and environmental organisations to be given more legal say in environmental issues. Werner Widmer, the association’s president, said on Friday that fish were rapidly disappearing from Swiss waterways. “Since 1980 the amount of trout caught has dropped by 60 per cent in Switzerland and in the Rhine and 16 of…

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Swiss fall short of ambitious biodiversity goal

This content was published on Dashing Swiss hopes of a turnaround by this year is a research project led by the Swiss Biodiversity Forum and involving more than 80 scientists and specialists in the field. The main conclusion: biodiversity continues to be under threat and diminishing in Switzerland. Switzerland was one of several European nations to make the commitment at…

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