Oscar Stella (Federcaccia Veneto) commented on the recent publication of the regional hunting calendar as regards the 2019-2020 season. The contents were largely appreciated by the association, despite the doubts about some points. Particularly liked the pre-opening to wood pigeon for two days, as requested by FIDC, a solution that makes the same days coincide with those of the turtledove.
Also positive was the opinion on the maintenance of the opening and closing dates of the season, from the third Sunday of September to 30st January, against an ISPRA opinion - more and more theoretical and not based on scientific data - which would like to restrict wandering hunting to just 3 months, and contract for 25 days to hunt numerous migrants. Here is how the note continues: "Coming to the unsatisfactory parts, we cannot agree with the decision to close the wood pigeon hunt on January 16, since the sentence of the TAR Tuscany, on which this decision is based, was appealed in Council of State and therefore it is not definitive; it would therefore have been possible to subtract from the season only the two days scheduled for the pre-opening e in the event of an appeal, ask for another TAR, which could have had a different orientation.
We are also disconcerted by the regional choices for fighter and brunette: the first with the opening on 1 October instead of 15 September, which it affects 90% of the possible withdrawal, and the second with the closure on January 20 (the only one among the anatidae), when the European population has no conservation problems and the protection of brunette tobacco it is to be implemented at the beginning of the season, certainly not in January, when the species is present in Veneto with few units. Too bad, because Federcaccia had proposed these changes to the draft, foreseeing for example a limited game bag and stalking hunting form for the fighter. Finally, we noted that some reasons for the departure from the ISPRA opinion could be improved. As always, we offer our collaboration to the Veneto Region for the best management of hunting and the defense against possible appeals ”.