Hunting: Sicily, the woodcock hunt on the island closes early on January 10th, compared to the date of January 31st set by the Hunting Calendar, to comply with the requests of the European Union.
As is known, the decree issued by the Sicilian Regional Councillor for Agriculture, Antonino Caleca, on December 9th set the closing date for woodcock hunting on the island at January 10th , compared to the 31st, as previously foreseen in the Hunting Calendar . In a statement the following day, Federcaccia Sicilia immediately criticized the Region's decision, emphasizing that it was an unjustified worsening of the Ministry of the Environment's request. The Ministry, the statement recalls, sent a request to several Regions, including Sicily, which had established in their respective Hunting Calendars a January 31st closing date for Song Thrush, Fieldfare , and Woodcock, to bring forward the hunting deadline for these wild birds to "at least" January 20th, based on a "supposed" European procedure.
In reality, the EU Environment Commission has simply asked Italy to clarify some aspects of the Hunting Calendars, (PILOT 6599/14 / ENVI), and the Ministry of the Environment instead asks, even before the EU Commission has expressed an assessment, to close the hunt early. In the meantime, Federcaccia Sicilia underlines, “what is our Region doing?”. "One month and twenty days before the date proposed by the Ministry, he autonomously decides to close the hunt not on the 20th, a date that, among other things, FIdC had always proposed as correctly justifiable, but even on January 10th".
"Who knows - he concludes - if now with the same diligence the closing dates of the Thrush will be moved to January 20 and the aquatic dates to January 31, on which the Ministry agrees ...".
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