The hunting calendar for the hunting season 2022/2023. The good news is that the law has been respected and perhaps for the first time since the promulgation of Regional Law No. 26 of 1993 the calendar is presented on June 15th. On the one hand, therefore, the user, i.e. the hunters, can assess it calmly, on the other hand, if there are administrative appeals, the Lombardy Region will have all the time to argue a possible defense and possibly adapt to the provisions of the administrative judge avoiding the disaster last year, when hunting, after the first day, was suspended until October 2, because October 1 fell on a Friday. However, the calendar promulgated this year includes numerous further limitations that are creating considerable discontent in the hunting world.
Some we expected and others came like lightning from the blue. It must be said that ISPRA expressed very drastic, draconian opinions on the calendar hypothesized by the Lombardy Region both last year and in 2022, from which we can deviate by arguing in depth but above all convinced. Taking into consideration the migratory fauna, we read that from fixed stalking, only the song thrush and the blackbird can be hunted from the third Sunday of September until the end of the month, while for the other species the collection starts from 1 October, and we are talking about cesena, redwing thrush, lark and quail.
For the latter, it would have been more correct to start the withdrawal on the third Sunday of September and then close it early, perhaps at the end of November, just to give a semblance of logic to the choice which instead appears only punitive. For all the anatids, for the coot, the water rail, magpie, crow and jay, up to and including 30th September, the collection can only be exercised by stalking, both fixed and temporary; also in this case we will ask for an explanation. Furthermore, for all anatidae, the collection will end on January 20 and the same closing date also applies to cesena and redwing.
If the motivation, especially for Cesena, are the Key Concepts established by Ispra, such as Federcaccia, thanks to a study commissioned by the University of Milan, we have shown that the migration start dates are very different from those stubbornly supported, without scientific foundations. , by the technicians of the Ozzano Institute in Emilia. Negative news also for the sedentary one: having made the choice, which we share, to start the collection from 18 September, third Sunday in September, we read, however, that for hare and partridge and red partridge the collection ends on November 30 and that of pheasant on December 31st. These are choices that may have, especially for partridge and red partridge, a management choice with a view to conserving breeding stock for the following hunting season.
However, we are convinced that when we talk about management we should not base the reasoning on an imposition, on the classic take or leave, but rather on a sharing with the hunting world, with hunting associations that must have the task of transmitting new concepts and new projects to its associates. The principle that decisions have always come from above is wrong in the perspective of a goal to be achieved that sees the involvement of thousands of hunters. Finally, the woodcock, a topic that has caused the hunting world to be discussed in the last two years in the light of the modification of the regional law which has seen the collection of the piarist mushroom prolonged until the end of January.
There had been talk of fixed days, of important sanctions, in the provincial council the topic was debated in depth and the favorable opinion had been received from many sides. Well, the woodcock is not mentioned in the calendar, perhaps the topic will be addressed in an understatement, the fact is that everything has a bit of the flavor of mockery. But let us be clear about one concept: with a Regional Wildlife Plan under construction and whose approval in this legislation must be pursued to the last, there is little to do for the sophisticated. But there is a way and a way to tackle the issues; we know for sure that the holder of the hunting delegation, the commissioner Fabio Rolfi, intervened directly on this game to remedy the umpteenth mess in the offices. (Source FIDC BRESCIA - THOUGHT-HUNTING)