Hunt in Bari. The regional councilor of the Ap-Ncd-Lista Schittulli group, Gianni Stea, who announced that he wanted to involve the administration led by the mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro and, as far as he was concerned, the Regional Councilorship for Hunting, denounced "For years the hunters of the Province of Bari, today the Metropolitan Area, have paid the regional tax and the membership fee to the Territorial Area of Caccia Bari without receiving in exchange any of the services provided, especially as regards environmental improvements and restocking of wildlife ".
“A totally bankruptcy management - explained the councilor - so much so that the Province has returned to the Puglia Region about 1.6 million euros, paid by hunters in the last 5 years and never spent. The reference legislation attributes to the Provinces the management of the Restocking and Capture and the functions of supervision, control and coordination of the activities promoted by the Management Committees, which they use for the management of the ATC (Territorial hunting area), which are instead entrusted with the management of the territory intended for planned hunting ".
Continuing Stea stated, "To the repeated attempts promoted by the Management Committee to implement restocking, the Hunting Service of the Metropolitan Area of Bari has opposed the most inexplicable obstruction, so much so that since 2013 no more restocking of hares, partridges and pheasants are carried out. , despite the mandatory annual fees paid by hunters. The Atc Bari has been a police station since August 2014, therefore well beyond the four months provided for by the law for the reconstitution of the CdG, and the successive Commissioners, despite having complied with the requests for authorization of the 2015 and 2016 restocking plans, also through the acquisition of binding opinions of the Puglia Region - EIA and SEA Service -, like what was already done by the CdG in 2014, they too have not received any authorization for restocking ".
“Among the many obligations - added Stea - to which the Decaro administration will have to fulfill, the drafting of the new Provincial Wildlife Hunting Plan, already under derogation, is of particular importance. The demographic explosion of the Wild Boar, which has long been underestimated by the Hunting Service, which today more than ever needs adequate solutions, which have already been repeatedly indicated by ISPRA ”.
"Another serious non-compliance in the Metropolitan Area of Bari - said the councilor - is the failure to convene for more than two years the Examination Commission for the qualification to exercise the hunting activity and for the qualification for the collection of truffles , effectively revealing an interruption of public service. To date, the Metropolitan Area of Bari lacks the Provincial Wildlife Technical Committee, a technical-advisory-proposing body of the Province, also responsible for approving the restocking plans proposed by the ATC.
"Furthermore - concluded Stea - it is not clear why, after 4 years from the first" Training course for the control of problematic species "(wild boar, fox, corvids, etc.) organized by ATC Bari, the Hunting Service , citing dubious reasons, does not allow the registration, in the appropriate provincial register, of the 200 hunters qualified for control activities and who would bring an undoubted benefit to environmental management free of charge ".
(March 16, 2016)
Source: GravinaLife