In recent days Federcaccia Marche was called into question by the regional president of Weather in Arcicaccia Gabriel Sperindio regarding the resignation of some members of the management committee of the ATC MC1, obliging us to respond that we believe due only out of respect for our members and hunters in general. Considering also his past, somewhat rowdy, as a member of the PS1 committee also on this occasion Sperindio, as in the past on other topics, seems to show singular memory problems. So forget - or pretend to forget - that in the last two years all the ATCs of the Marche have seen almost a doubling of claims for damages caused by wild boar and pigeon, with consequent negative repercussions in the budgets of the same in the years 2020 and 2021 despite the fact that thanks to the commitment of hunters in the same period the culls of ungulates have almost doubled.
The regional president Arcicaccia forgets - or pretends to forget - that for years the Marche ATCs have raised a cry of alarm addressed to the hunting associations and mainly to the Region, denouncing the impossibility of managing the situation created. Again, Sperindio forgets - or pretends to forget - that for over a year the Marche Region has created a working table between ATC, hunting and agricultural associations to remedy the problem of damage explosion, the economic asset management of ATCs and the revision of the Regulations relating to damage from wildlife.
Federcaccia does not know in detail the economic and financial situation of ATC MC 1 nor does it intend to enter into the merits of the decisions taken on a personal level in the management committee but wants to remind Sperindio that this ATC has never increased the hunters' quotas - quota stopped for years at € 52 - contrary to what has been done by other regional areas, with quotas that for some even reach over 100 euros. Federcaccia Marche, but also other hunting associations, recently reiterated that we cannot think of dealing with the increase in damage in agriculture by increasing the quotas to be paid by the hunters, but that the problem must be solved with the establishment of a regional fund, as required by law 157/92, to which the Region has said it is available.
We therefore strongly reject what was expressed by the regional president Arcicaccia Sperindio who, not new to this attitude, has seen fit to exploit an episode without showing any consideration towards the people involved who have contributed over the years with their commitment to ensure the functioning of a very important body for the environmental wildlife management and consequently for thousands of hunters, farmers and citizens of the Marche region (source: Federcaccia Marche).