The National Union of Enalcaccia Fishing and Shooting Provincial Section of Arezzo after some reflections on the approval of the provincial hunting calendar presents some proposals.
We are close to the meeting of the Provincial Council of Hunting where, after a long wait, the provincial hunting calendar for the upcoming hunting season will be discussed. Wanting to go beyond the diatribe between the Province of Arezzo and the Tuscany Region, triggered precisely by the delay in defining the calendar, we, as Provincial Enalcaccia, want to reiterate that if this delay has occurred, all this is due to the changes made by the Region to the law 20/2002 - regional hunting calendar: in the last meeting of the Council, the Provincial Administration informed us of the situation that was defining itself at the regional level and that is of the will by the Tuscany Region to reduce the hunting times for wild boar in battue limiting them to ninety days, in compliance with national legislation, all attributable to an appeal presented by the environmental associations to the 2011/2012 calendar of the Province of Florence, still being examined by the constitutional court; this is the reason for the serious delay: to await, with hope, solutions from the Region that envisaged wild boar hunting for the entire hunting season.
Arezzo, with the maximum approval of Enalcaccia and anticipating the Region that decided on the matter seven or eight years later, was the first Tuscan province to foresee, since the early 2000s, with special extraordinary decrees, the hunting of wild boar for the entire hunting season - from general opening to January 31st -; all to limit the huge damage to agricultural production and road accidents that the wild boar causes, as well as, very important, to start the hunting activity all on the same day, avoiding to concentrate the usual wild boar hunters in hunting pheasant, hare , gray partridge and partridge and therefore an excessive rarefaction of these species, already in difficulty.
For us Enalcaccia to plan to reduce hunting times for driven wild boar is a huge loss that Arezzo, after years of commitment and results by all the subjects in charge, the Province, Hunting Associations and hunters, cannot afford: considering that the Province today is in difficulty in issuing extraordinary measures, considering the uncertain future of the Provinces, the Region will have to assume its responsibilities and will have to move politically in the immediate, finding the right solution to confirm the old days of hunting boar.
We also propose that the Province send a specific request to the Tuscany Region to authorize 2 days of pre-opening on 1 and 2 September, for the species pigeon, turtledove (streptopelia turtur), blackbird, jay, crow and magpie from fixed and temporary stalking and, from stalking. fixed, in artificial lakes and artificially flooded surfaces, to the predicted anatidae.
We ask that the woodcock hunt in January can also be practiced with the hunting dog, by virtue of the fact that all hunters must have the same opportunities and that all breeds of dogs specialized for hunting certain species must have the same consideration; moreover, every hunter, for the woodcock hunt in January, will be able to hunt with 2 pointing or hunting dogs and not with one, as foreseen last year's calendar.
We ask that, in the fixed ambushes with palmipeds and waders, we can make use of lead-loaded cartridges: foresee, like last year, the obligation to use ammunition with steel shot creates economic difficulties in hunters of this discipline, in purchasing special ammunition and suitable rods that have very high costs.
It is hoped that in pre-opening and during the 2012/2013 hunting season, the Province of Arezzo will authorize control interventions of the city pigeon and of the starling to qualified hunters; this activity, unique among the Tuscan provinces and the flagship of our province, allows to significantly reduce the damage caused to agricultural production by these species, especially considering that the regional derogation applied only to the transfer provides for very restrictive provisions in its application and, consequently, poor results for the purposes of the abatements, compared to those obtained with the application of the extraordinary interventions arranged by the Province of Arezzo.
It is recommended that, from the general opening, the possibility for hunters to have 5 hunting days, of which 3 at choice, can be exercised for the entire hunting season, once taking into account any ATC 2 proposals, is confirmed; this argument, of fundamental importance for us, sanctions the freedom of the hunter to be able to organize himself over five days by choosing three, not being obliged to hunt on fixed days.
Finally, it is asked to provide for a protection area for partridge in the area of the Casentino valley floor, as proposed by local hunting associations, in order to favor the development of this species.
Jacob Piantini
Provincial President of Enalcaccia Arezzo