The Regional Council of Veneto approved, on the proposal of the councilor for hunting Giuseppe Pan, the hunting calendar 2019-2020. The season will open on 15 September 2019 and will close on 30 January 2020, but with different hunting periods depending on the species. The calendar includes a few pre-opening days (1, 2, 3, 9 and 10 September) for the species blackbird, jay, magpie, hooded crow and hooded crow. Compared to the hunting calendar of the previous seasons, the wood pigeon hunting in the two pre-opening days of 1 and 2 September, also in consideration of the good state of the population in the regional territory.
Confirmed turtle dove hunting also in the next hunting season in Veneto, in the first two pre-opening days, despite the national management plan proposing to suspend the collection in the pre-openings, and then from 15th to 30th September with the limit of daily game bag to 5 heads and the seasonal one at 20 per hunter, as indicated by Ispra (the institute for the protection of wildlife). The 2019-2020 calendar also confirms time limits for hunting the fighter (from 2 to 31 October), for the gray partridge, the pheasant, the quail and the wild rabbit (huntable until 30 December), for the lark ( from 2 October to 30 December), for the blackbird (from 15 September to 15 December), for woodcock and song thrush, huntable until January 20.
Even for jays, magpies, black crows and gray crows, the harvest season ends early on January 12 - as in the previous hunting calendar - but the postponement days remain confirmed 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 February 2020. Early closure also for the tufted duck (from 2 October to 20 January), while for white hares, ptarmigan, black grouse and rock partridge, the possibility of limited numerical withdrawals is confirmed from 2 October to 30 November, based on plans determined by censuses specific. “Also this year - underlines the commissioner - the long and in-depth preliminary work, which involved Region, Provinces and Ispra, has produced a balanced calendar, respectful of the environment, of European and national regulations, of the numerical consistency of the different species and of the right of hunters to exercise their passion ".
The measure indicates, as every year, the quantitative limit of the game boxes, the hunting days (three days a week at the hunter's choice, excluding Tuesdays and Fridays), hunting times, specific rules for wildlife-hunting and agri-tourism-hunting companies, rules for the training and training of dogs. hunting, restrictions in special protection areas (ZPS). “As for sedentary game - underlines the commissioner - the regional administration proposes a single calendar at the regional level, with no differentiation between Provinces and between territorial hunting areas. This choice allows to simplify and rationalize the hunting activity in the regional territory". The hunting of ungulates (fallow deer, alpine chamois, roe deer, red deer, mouflon) is authorized and regulated by the provinces whose territory falls in whole or in part in the fauna area of the Alps. In the other territories not included in the faunal area of the Alps, only selective sampling is allowed, based on qualitative and quantitative abatement plans authorized and regulated by the Provinces.