It is controversy over the hunting calendar 2022/2023 approved by Lazio region. As last year, the opening remains confirmed on the third Sunday of September for most species and the closing on January 30 for both aquatic and turdids. The postponement of the closure to 9 February for wood pigeon and jay also remains. The hunt is allowed 3 days of your choice each week with the exclusion of Tuesdays and Fridays. From October XNUMXst, every hunter with a registered residence in Lazio will be able to take advantage of 20 free days to hunt migratory game in all regional ATCs. There should also be pre-opening on 18 September for some species: crow, magpie, quail, hare and turtle dove.
The novelty of this year concerns the turtledove: to quota the withdrawals, the Region has set a maximum limit of turtle doves that can be collected in 5534 heads and assigned to each ATC an abatement quota based on the number of members. A measure that has sent on a rampage Peter Casasole, provincial head of the hunting association "Hunting Development and Territory" who took pen and papers and wrote to the regional councilor Erica Onorati and to the councilor Enrico Panunzi. "I express my dissent - he underlines - for the unconstitutional behavior of the Lazio Region in proposing the pre-opening, given that all hunters, despite paying the same amount-taxes for the hunting season, do not enjoy the same rights.
Through a special note, Ispra highlighted that the African turtledove is in a precarious state of conservation at continental level. The umpteenth havoc is therefore authorized as has now happened for 10-15 years while the wildlife technicians announce that of this specimen of African origin only 5.534 specimens remain. Citing the numbers of Macedonia, another European nation, six hunters in two days made a game bag of about 250 species. On behalf of the association, I reiterate that we want to carry out everything in compliance with the Constitution: a hunt that is not paid but by law.
I wonder what all the federal hunting associations, the animal welfare and agricultural associations that are part of the technical hunting committee were thinking about when they decided to agree on this slaughter. And they asked themselves who will control the 5.534 hunters (at the moment of having killed one head each) so that they lay down their weapons and go away. Our association - concludes Pietro Casasole - therefore asks the Lazio Region to revoke the opening measure on September 18th as already done by that of Umbria. As an alternative certainly welcome to create a single day of hunting for residents in their ATC of registry residence (game bag maximum 5 heads). It is essential to remember that, at the time of atmospheric changes, with the arrival of the rains the species emigrates and from the beginning of September there will be no more traces "(Viterbonews24).