The Emilia Romagna Region is asked to regulate hunting mobility between the regions in order to balance the hunting pressure on the whole regional and national territory.
The regional councilor Andrea Pollastri, with a question urges the need for "an agreement with Lombardy to regulate hunting mobility, so that there is time to stipulate it in anticipation of the next 2012-2013 season".
The hunting mobility between the regions is foreseen by the Regional Law n.8 of 1994, "Provisions for the protection of wildlife and for the exercise of hunting", which in art. 37, paragraph 1, provides for the possibility of exchanges of hunters between the regions in order to make hunting pressure on the regional and national territory more balanced as well as proportionate to the fauna.
Nonetheless this "migration" of hunters over the years has accentuated the imbalances, especially in the border provinces, where hunting pressure has increased due to the excessive presence of extra-regional hunters.
One of the most obvious cases is the province of Piacenza, where the scarce number of hunters in the face of the available territory, arouses a strong interest of the nearby Lombard hunters who instead have little game available in their region due to the large number of practitioners insistent on a small available territory.
In the 2010-2011 Hunting Season of the 5.736 hunters enrolled in the eleven ATCs of the Piacenza Province, 2.024 came from outside the region, most of which come from Lombardy.
In the last few years the number of Lombard hunters in the Piacenza area has progressively increased passing from 1.261 in 2008-2009, to 1303 in 2009-2010 to 1404 in the last hunting season; on the contrary, the Piacenza hunters in Lombardy in the last season were only 42.
This strong decompensation has for some time now caused dissension and discontent with Piacenza hunters who see their territory and the fauna found there exploited by "foreign" hunters.
Pollastri explains on the issue, "This situation cannot be ignored by the Region: the law, in fact, provides for the exchange to take place"In compliance with the principle of reciprocity", Which, judging by the numbers, does not seem to exist".
The councilor then continues, "There are agreements with the Regions of Tuscany and Marche that define the maximum number of hunters that can be registered with the Emilia-Romagna ATCs and the priority criteria (hunters who are owners or conductors of funds, holders of fixed stalking, born in municipalities included in the ATC requested and currently residing in Emilia-Romagna, residing in neighboring municipalities), while there is nothing with Lombardy " .
Finally Pollastri concludes, "I therefore ask the reasons for the strong imbalance existing between Lombard hunters enrolled in the Piacenza ATCs and vice versa., if there are numerical limitations for Lombard hunters, the reasons for which there is no agreement with Lombardy as well as those existing with Tuscany and Marche and if it is intended to stipulate it ".