La Veneto region issued a statement after the announcement by the Ministry of Health that it banned the use of live decoys in hunting because ofbird flu. The local authority specified that it had activated all the measures envisaged by the national and Community protocols, as a result any type of hunting in derogation must be considered suspended to avoid increasing the risks of spreading the disease.
The Regional Councilor for Agriculture, Joseph Pan, he then added that the supervision of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of the Venezie of Legnaro (in the province of Padua) made it possible to immediately activate at the local level all the necessary measures in these cases. Pan himself undertook to warn administrative structures, provincial police corps and hunting associations.
When dealing with avian flu, the prompt response of the territory and the operational and management coordination from the point of view of hunting surveillance they can make a difference. According to the commissioner, then, all these behaviors confirm that we cannot have it yet a reductive idea of the hunting sector, attentive only to the consumption of the Venetian wildlife heritage. In this way you can really enhance the commitment of hunting and put aside negative situations and to be sanctioned.