Spread of swine fever
“We ask the Region not to limit hunting to wild boar; the construction of the fence to counter the spread of swine fever is slow and this problem, in some areas, even becomes a reason to stop the slaughter. The agricultural world is exasperated and can no longer suffer further damage ”. This is the appeal launched by the president of Piedmont Confagriculture Enrico Allasia following the decisions of the Region to block wild boar hunting in some areas of the province of Alessandria. The Piedmont Region - Confagricoltura specifies in a note - in August authorized wild boar hunting with the use of dogs in restriction zone I and II, only in the territories where the fence had been completed and outside of the same; inside the barrier it was allowed to practice selection hunting of wild boar in single form without dogs and control interventions pursuant to article 19 of law 157/1992.
Wild boar hunting activity
However, since September, following a specific request from some territorial hunting areas of the province of Alessandria (ATC AL4 and AL3), the competent regional directorates have communicated that, from 2 October, throughout the territory of ATC AL4 ( restriction zone I and restriction zone II outside the fence) hunting with wild boar with the use of dogs is no longer permitted, with the exception of the territories falling within the hunting farms and hunting farms. On the other hand, in the ATC AL3 area, in acceptance of the relative request, hunting of wild boar in all its forms is not allowed. A similar prohibition also applies to the hunting farms and hunting farms included in the ATC AL3. As regards the remaining ATC AL2 territory in restriction zone II north of the fence, the A26 motorway barrier and the motorway junction, and in the municipality of Mombaldone, falling within the ATC AT2 (in the province of Asti), notwithstanding as established by the regional hunting calendar 2022/2023, also from 2 October 2022 the opening of hunting activities for wild boar in the form of scheduled hunting is authorized.
Emergency check
In the territory between the western fence, the A26 motorway barriers of the motorway junction and the A7, including the territories falling within the hunting farms and hunting farms, selection hunting is allowed, as per the previous resolution of August. wild boar in single form without the aid of dogs, as well as control interventions pursuant to article 19 of law 157/1992. To the east of the A7 motorway barrier (restriction zone I and restriction zone II), including the territories falling within the hunting farms and hunting farms, where the temporary barrier has yet to be completed, no hunting activity is authorized for wild boar except for any emergency control interventions ordered by the Province of Alessandria.
Laying the fence
Hunting, both in programmed form and in selection, will be possible only after the communication of completion of the laying of the fence. "We are unpleasantly surprised by this decision - says Enrico Allasia - because after our repeated requests, which in recent months had led the Region to take measures aimed at boosting the depopulation of wild boars, we are now faced with a joke arrest frankly hard to understand and absolutely not acceptable. Putting limitations on hunting will certainly not help to improve the killing rates, which at the moment are totally unsatisfactory, and to solve the PSA problem ".