La Province of Alessandria has prepared a control plan for coypu throughout the territory, including protected areas, private hunting institutes and urban areas. The aim is to eradicate this rodent e the modes have been precisely listed. The plan will have a total duration of five years with the possibility of annual review: poisons and rodenticides, like any other non-selective method, will be absolutely forbidden. The preferential way that has been indicated by the Piedmontese province is that of capture through cage-traps.
The dimensions of the latter must be adequate, complete with a single or double opening. The capture can be carried out by voluntary hunting guards, local police officers and farmers. Then there is the modalities of the suppression of otters. The Province of Alessandria has authorized the use of the rifle with small caliber ammunition, while the alternative is to transfer the animals in airtight containers for exposure to carbon dioxide.
Direct abatement with weapon it can be carried out outside the inhabited centers and also from expressly authorized hunters and specially trained through courses of the same province. The times will be those allowed by regional hunting calendar until next January 31st.