Federcaccia Veneto has decided to write to the regional councilor for hunting, Joseph Pan, regarding the hunting calendar for the 2018-2019 season. Here is the text of the letter. After the approval of the hunting calendar 2018-2019 and preventive meeting of 5 June where the Region had motivated its choices and the Hunting Associations present had expressed themselves in this regard, we are presenting the following requests. Fighter species: the opening scheduled for 1 October strongly affects the hunting of the species and therefore the opening must be brought back to 16 September, only from stalking, and the closing to 31 October.
The change made by the Region to maintain the hunter's right to hunt this species despite the fact that ISPRA for the protection of the species requested the suspension of the sampling, is totally unjustified. The Veneto Region has already won an appeal to the TAR on this point. Tufted duck species: leave the closing on January 31 as the closing date on January 20 does not respond in any way to the request of the ISPRA which asked for its suspension.
Consequently, the Veneto Region must already justify the deviation from the ISPRA opinion, as it has already done in previous years without any problem. Wood pigeon species: 2 pre-opening days can be opened on the same days as the turtle dove (1 and 2 September). Lark species: in consideration of the "National Management Plan for the Lark" it is possible to increase the daily collection from 10 to 20 and from 50 to 100 the annual one only for identified hunters (eg owners of lark calls, holders of fixed posting and with special badges).
For the passage from 10 to 20 for all hunters, the ISPRA opinion is not required, but only the reasons of the Region. For the passage from 50 to 100, with the check that the overall collection in the region does not decrease, it is necessary to have the data of the total withdrawals in the region for at least 3 years, and then to reduce the annual bag proportionally on the remaining hunters. Allow all Veneto hunters to shoot alone 50 larks it is useless for those who do not practice this hunt and also penalizing for specialists who have a completely unsatisfactory game bag at their disposal. Red partridge species: reintroduce it in the calendar as a huntable species as it was until 1991-1992