What will happen in the 2024-2025 season
Just yesterday, the meeting of the territorial wildlife-hunting council was held, called to give opinions regarding the additions of territorial competence to the regional hunting calendar for the 2024-2025 year. The closure requirements for the press did not allow us to be able to say here how things went; we will certainly provide adequate information on our website in the next few days. However, we can clarify the positions that we intended to reiterate, at each level, with respect to the needs for clarity of the Venatori Calendars, starting with the next one. The Regional Hunting Federation, and consequently also the Bresciana, is urging the Lombardy Region to ensure that the regional hunting calendar comes out complete with all huntable species, with the relative hunting periods and seasonal and daily game bags indicated, without references to other laws or provisions. In essence, the hunter must be able to know and understand when, what and how much he can hunt in general from a single concise and streamlined document.
Resident species
Just as it would be useful if the openings and closings set in the calendar should be identical for everyone at a regional level, including for resident species (common hare, gray partridge, red partridge, pheasant, wild rabbit, little hare and fox), obviously distinguishing between ATC and CAC, and in the Alpine District between Zone A and Zone B. In essence, there would be an indication of a maximum period for said species, without prejudice to the possibility, during the current season, that said sampling could be closed even early once the approved sampling plan has been reached or also because within a reasonable period, which we indicate as seven weeks from the opening, at least 70% of the plan itself has not been achieved; or for other management reasons due to extraordinary circumstances, at the request of the ATC Management Committee. Naturally, without prejudice to the opening and closing dates, the seasonal game bag of resident fauna will necessarily have to be differentiated for the individual institutes, taking into consideration the faunal stocks of the individual territories and the amount of hunting pressure. It goes without saying that as regards the general opening of hunting activities there is no doubt that the date must be the third Sunday of September as established by national law 157/92. It is reiterated that the idea of putting fixed days also in the ATCs in September, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and until 13pm for the sedentary and after 13pm exclusively for temporary posting exclusively for the migratory, should certainly be confirmed. Furthermore, this measure serves to justify the deviation from the ISPRA opinion regarding the settlement regarding disturbance, controls and hunting pressure in the first days of hunting.
Less fragmentation
Also with regards to the additions made by the Management Committees of the Alpine Districts, given the notable decline in hunters, 30% in Lombardy in a decade, something shared and less fragmented would be desirable and very welcome. We believe that seven/eight membership fees, which correspond to a different possibility of withdrawal, are objectively too many; it also follows from this, as well as from all regional inventions, a general disaffection and the classic hanging up the rifle. For example, now in the Alps area we have held courses for those who make themselves available for censuses of the typical Alpine winged game; and now tests are starting for the dogs, to certify their suitability to carry out the censuses. Nothing matters if the hunters who had to take the course have been doing censuses correctly for thirty years and if the dogs who have to take the exams, scheduled every five years, can actually do training in the days immediately following those who take the censuses. without having taken exams, with the same presumed danger to game. We understand that certain notions or exams can be useful to those approaching certain types of hunting for the first time, we don't understand it at all when you necessarily want to teach those who have already been doing the same things for many years with excellent results. And mind you, it's not so much the wasted days that make us lose heart, but rather the presumption of inadequacy that we carry with us in our consideration of public administration. (Source FEDERCACCIA BRESCIA – CACCIAPENSIERI)