It is well known that otters are a problem, a new alarm was raised at the local assembly Co. which in recent days was held in Porto Tolle. According to one of the latest estimates they would be about 200 thousand specimens currently present in Polesine with the damage they cause to the embankments and consequent hydrogeological risk.
During the meeting the director of the trade association of Rovigo, Paul Franceschetti he noted: «We acknowledge the Region of having activated, last August, the regional control plan of the nutria, also following the various requests that we have submitted in the appropriate fora. We hope that the containment operations go ahead on a regular basis, as the regional administration itself has demonstrated in recent months. At the same time it is necessary to proceed with a general sterilization program ».
According to the reported calculations, the damage caused by the nutria in the whole province would amount to over half a million euros per year. These animals, in fact, usually dig their burrows in the banks of canals, drains and ditches also putting the safety of farmers at risk that, when they pass close to the embankments with their agricultural vehicles, they risk overturning since the lands dotted with holes are more landslide. Cia Rovigo therefore deems it necessary to amend law 157 of 1992 “Rules for the protection of wildlife”. According to Franceschetti: "The legislation governing the matter must be changed in order to reach a point of equilibrium, in the context of a biodiversity that provides for a natural coexistence of the different varieties of fauna.
Today more than ever it is necessary to go beyond the principle of protection to arrive at that of a correct one wildlife management itself, therefore, what is the optimal density must be sought ". At the table which was also attended by the deputy mayor Silvana Mantovani, the tax manager Susy Loatti and the director of the Inac patronage Stefano Bosello, other topics were finally addressed: lack of generational change in farms which risks bringing back the spread of large estates and the requests for fishing collected by the newly founded Pescagri-Cia (Il Gazzettino).