Hunt in Lecco, the Provincial Council approves new regulations for hunting and fishing activities; hunters for wildlife censuses, protected species and limit to the number of fishermen.
At most 4 professional fishermen in the Lario and hunters are required to take part in the wildlife census. These are the two most interesting points relating to the new hunting and fishing regulations, all approved during the provincial council on Monday 72 February. Starting from fishing, the regulations provide for some new elements: first of all, as mentioned, a clear limit has been added to the number of professional fishermen who will be able to carry out their activity in Lake Como, Lecco and Como areas included. If at the moment there are 80 professional fishermen, with this new regulation the maximum limit established is XNUMX, a number beyond which it will not be possible to go.
Add to this the introduction of a series of rules to protect the agone, a species that risks disappearing in the waters of our lake. “The data relating to the fishing of the agone - explained the Councilor for the Environment, Carlo Signorelli - are not very comforting as there is a risk of the disappearance of this fish, which is very popular in the cuisine of the area. This confronts us with the need to place restrictions ”. The regulation, approved with a favorable vote of the whole council, therefore introduces a limit to fishing in the reproductive period, ie the one that goes from May 20th to the 20th of the following month.
As regards, however, the regulations relating to hunting, the discussion in the council was a bit more heated. The crux of the matter, as anticipated, is the decision of involve the hunters themselves in the homeothermic wildlife census. "It is often not easy - explained Signorelli - to be able to take a census of all the specimens present in the area and it is to facilitate this procedure that we have opted for an active role of hunters, who will be able to help us".
This is an aspect that has not failed to raise the concerns of the opposition, starting with Alessandro Pozzi. "With such a regulation - he said - the controller would coincide with the controlled one and the guarantee role generally played by the forest rangers would disappear. The obvious risk is of an overestimation of the specimens. To this I add that even those species worthy of protection such as the Rock Partridge and the Black Grouse cannot be included in the census ”.
And it was precisely on the species that should be protected that Anna Mazzoleni also intervened, who tried to propose to the assembly to postpone the discussion so as to have time to think better about the amendments to be made to the text. At the center of his speech was the proposal to leave "at least the census of these species in the hands of the forest guards". This proposal was not taken into consideration by the council, which at the end of the debate approved the regulation despite Pozzi's vote against and the abstention of the rest of the opposition.
6 February 2013
Source: LeccoNotizie