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Licence for an individual to protect their fishery from fish-eating birds (A06 and A07)

Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery and find out how to report your actions.

• From: Natural England
• Published: 14 April 2015
• Last updated: 23 May 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Application for a licence to kill or take cormorants causing serious damage to fisheries (A06)

Ref: Form: A06

PDF, 1.44 MB

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Application for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing serious damage to fisheries (A07)

Ref: Form: A07

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Report your actions under this licence (LR06-07)

Ref: Form: LR06-07

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Details

You may get a licence to kill or take wild birds if there’s no other satisfactory way to prevent serious damage to your fishery or inland waters.

This licence applies to:

• cormorants (use form A06)
• goosanders
• mergansers
• herons

There’s a separate licence to protect fisheries from damage by otters.

Report your actions

You must report any actions you took using this licence. Use the online report form (LR06-07) on this page. When you submit the form, it will automatically be sent to Natural England.

If you cannot use the online report form, email wildlife@naturalengland.org.uk to ask for a paper copy. You can send or email your completed form to Natural England using the details on the form.

You must report within 14 days of your licence expiring, even if you’ve taken no action.

If you do not submit a report, Natural England may revoke (cancel) your licence and refuse future applications.

Renew your licence

You can use the report form to request to renew your licence.

Published 14 April 2015
Last updated 23 May 2024 + show all updates

1. 23 May 2024

   Added information to the ‘Report your actions’ section to clarify that you must report within 14 days of your licence expiring, even if you’ve taken no action.

2. 7 July 2021

   Replaced the licence report form with an online version.

3. 16 July 2015

   Replaced cormorant application form (A06) with revised version.

4. 14 April 2015

   First published.