Detailed and potentially useful plans, but still blocked by a number of obstacles - the otters are a real emergency in Mantua, but the problem is difficult to solve. There Journal of Mantua he described how it was organized in some localities of the Lombard province. Particularly, Provincial plans remained in force between Asola and Mariana for up to two years. In practice, the hunters were allowed to perform specific hunts aimed at killing, so as to contain the number of rodents. Initially it was decided to pay 6 euros for each coypu caught, a figure that was then halved, then the law took care of it to complicate everything. Specifically, things have changed and the management of otters is currently a task of municipalities, reclamation consortia and also of individual citizens, who are forced to bear all the related economic costs.
We are talking about volunteers who decide to join groups and face the situation head on. But good will is not enough, to kill animals it is necessary to first attend a special course, pass a test and then obtain the relevant qualification. Furthermore, for the use of the rifle, the gun license must obviously not be missing, without forgetting the fundamental safety rules, the communication of the precise dates of the calendar, the exact locations of the interventions and more.
In these cases, it is necessary to contact the staff who are part of the wildlife surveillance of the province and to the public security authorities: these people are in fact in charge of managing the plans and approving the accompaniment with the hunting guards. The Gazzetta di Mantova also highlighted other obstacles of no small importance. For example, until recently the hunted and captured otters were stored in freezers owned by the various municipalities, then proceeded with the disposal, an operation that cost about 100 thousand euros.
Today, on the contrary, farmers are forced to dispose of the rodents themselves through a hole that is of adequate depth and to be located far from watercourses. One of the former local culling coordinators spoke ironically of a "University of nutria". Simply put, the plan may also be interesting and profitable, but the current state of affairs risks turning it into a flop. Among other things, the farmers themselves began to follow the compulsory courses with guilty delay: twelve months were unnecessarily passed and the nutria population has remained stagnant at an altitude of 20 thousand.