The hunters of Caselle Landi (LO) protest for the work of the ATC Management Committee which left them "without game".
In Caselle Landi, bureaucracy is harshly criticized, but also the decisions of the Management Committee starting from the exorbitant costs for trapping hares. Flop announced for the 2012 hunting season: there is no game! And the few heads of hares and pheasants are at the mercy of too many predators, especially foxes.
The hunters of Caselle Landi, about forty “shotguns” attested in the “Laudense sud” Territorial Area (ATC) with over a thousand members, have a magazine full of “poison bullets”. Against the bureaucracy, and also against many choices of the Management Committee starting from the exorbitant costs for the capture of hares.
«I have been hunting for 40 years - attacks Giuseppe Tantardini -. I don't feel like shooting a hare that costs us more than 650 euros ». Tantardini's analysis is documented and meticulous: the volunteers who participated in at least two raids for the capture of hares (more than 400 members) received a fee of 90 euros which is casino been separated from the membership fee to the ATC. 99 hares ended up in the nets. Specimens paid for in gold, while with a shopping in breeding centers the ticket would have been less than 150 euros.
At Caselle Landi Mauro Orsi points his finger on the excessive presence of predators: «This year the foxes are a real scourge - he attacks -. They are found everywhere. They rule the whole floodplain. In our country, contrary to the provisions of the neighboring provinces, the foxes are practically untouchable. It is only possible to identify their lairs. But in this period the foxes' dens are empty and we have no weapons to counter their raids ».
Orsi also offers live testimonies: «I witnessed the throwing of hares - he remembers -. They were all specimens equipped with a radio collar for monitoring. In less than 24 hours of 80 percent of those hares were found only the carcasses. Caselle Landi hunters who attended in large numbers at a summit held in the village last June do not even share the strategies of some provincial administrators to avoid the "fox-plague" not only on game but also on poultry. «It was suggested to us to close and armor the coops - observes Primo Cairo -. But if we acted like this we had to say goodbye to our own and free-range chickens ».
The bitterness of Caselle's shotguns (also that of Giovanni Bolzoni and Vittorio Cairo, also long-distance hunters) threatens to push towards extreme solutions: «Most likely we will emigrate to Piacentino - they announce in chorus -. It costs us more, but at least it gives us satisfaction! "
Source: Il Giorno - Lodi