Responding to the requests of the Control room of the hunting world, the Veneto Region has issued a note, in which it declares itself in favor of joining the National Management Plan for Wild Turtledove provided that this allows the pre-openings to be carried out with a daily game bag of 5 turtle doves and an annual of at least 15. Here is what the local authority wrote about it: "The question represented by the taking of the turtle dove and the undoubted consequences that the proposal of the Ministry of Ecological Transition of a possible request for a moratorium on hunting sampling of the species may have on hunting, which has long been the subject of prejudice and heavy restrictions, is well known to theDepartment of Hunting.
In the territory of our region, the species is present until mid-September and most of the subjects transits towards the wintering sites between the last ten days of August and in the first ten days of September. In Veneto, during migration, the species uses vast territories and disperses over large areas (hills, wooded countryside and alpine valleys); it is therefore evident how the hunting effect affects in an insignificant way on the population.
For these reasons, the position of the regional administration is formally represented at the coordination level of the technical table of the Environment and Energy Commission with regard to the national plan for the management of wild turtledove and provides that a favorable opinion can be expressed to the plan, only on condition that it is possible to exercise the collection of the species in pre-opening for at least three days, with a daily game bag of 5 animals and a seasonal game bag of 15 ".