Hunting: Brescia, live calls, roles and skills of the zoophile guards and the main themes of the meeting held in the Province.
The methods of applying the rings to the birds used as live calls but also a reflection on the roles and skills of zoophile guards. These are the hottest issues addressed the day before yesterday by the commission at Palazzo Broletto. A debate that wanted to break away from the battle with stamped papers on the roccoli issue, trying rather to clarify the controversial matter by offering the Brescia hunters authentic interpretations on the rules of engagement. The issue of trapping systems for migratory birds destined to become live calls for sheds is particularly delicate. In order not to stumble as happened repeatedly in the past in the appeals to the TAR of the hunting abolition League (the last pronouncement was, however, in favor of the Pirellone), the five-year plan of the Region provides for the progressive reduction of the capture of wild birds which will go hand in hand with the 'use as live calls of farmed birds.
A process that should lead to the closure of all Roccoli by January 2017, 90. The provincial guards should be entrusted with the application of the recognition rings as established by the EU, which has also set the launch of a mega-database. Measures aimed at discouraging the clandestine market of wild birds caught in illegal plants which also proliferates through counterfeit rings. For the territory of Brescia, where the maximum catch limit is set at XNUMX specimens, an enormous job is announced.
It is more complex, legally speaking, to untie the knot of the difficult relations between hunters and zoophile guards. For some time, the shotguns have denounced a pressure that in their view would go beyond the roles and skills of the volunteers employed in the role of public official but the thesis of the "shotguns" has never found objective supporting elements.
The Province is interfacing with the Prefecture to try to find solutions that cool the tensions between hunting enthusiasts and zoophile guards without guaranteeing immunity to hunters who violate the rules. But the path is suspended in limbo as the survival of the provinces hangs by a thread.
6 February 2014
Source: BresciaOggi