Belluno, hunting and fishing management is a matter of Piloni Palace, the seat of the Province: it is a first political step in the direction of the specificity of the province of Belluno. On Monday the Provincial Council, unanimously, approved the draft agreement with the Veneto Region for the exercise of particular forms of autonomy in the matter of hunting and fishing in implementation of law 25/2014. A path that began years ago, started with the 2012 regional statute, interrupted with the Delrio law of 2014, which provided for the abolition of the provinces, but resumed with the regional law 25 of 2014 which established interventions in favor of mountain territories and the conferment of special forms and conditions of administrative, regulatory and financial autonomy to the province of Belluno.
The referendum of 22 October 2017 was decisive, with which the majority of voters expressed themselves in favor of autonomy. Then, lastly, the law 30 of 2018, which resumed the reorganization of the provincial functions in the field of hunting and fishing. “It's about an important measure - commented the managing director, Franco De Bon - because it represents the first recognition of the specificity of Belluno and in particular of the great quality demonstrated over the years in the provincial management and in the protection of wildlife ». Together with the managing director there were also representatives of the hunting and fishing world, districts, game reserves and fishing grounds.
Franco De Bon explained how, with the new Province-Region agreement, the specific functions for the exercise of hunting and fishing activities remain in Belluno, which otherwise, following the Delrio law, had become a regional competence. «All the characterizing points concerning the management of hunting and fishing will be able to remain in the Province - explained the councilor -. Going into specifics, we got that within the regional wildlife plan, the Province participates with its attached document. We can prepare a regulation on the concrete application of the activities of the reserves. And also the hunting calendar can be managed by the Province; we have already seen it this year, with the opening of the hunt early compared to all other areas of Veneto.
Finally, we have managed to ensure that the examinations for hunting are carried out in the provincial headquarters, by a commission set up after having heard the Province of Belluno ». Some points relating to fishing are also important. "We got participation in regional planning and withholding the release of fishing concessions at the provincial level - continued De Bon -. These are important measures, because we are the only Venetian Province to take care of a project for the selection of the Piave marble trout, thanks to the ichthyogenic plants of Tomo and Bolzano Bellunese". In the Fonzaso area, moreover, the Brenta trout is also present in the Cismon stream. In short, a rich territory that the Province knows how to take care of (Il Gazzettino).