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Hunting season is opened in Veliko Tarnovo district!

Monday, Oct 05, 2015

Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Associate Professor Georgi Kostov took part in the official ceremony for the opening of the first day of the local small game hunting and group wild boar hunting in the lands of the village of Prisovo, district of Veliko Tarnovo.
Mr Kostov attended the hunting instructions in the early hours of the day and then joined the first battue.
The first hunt turned unsuccessful for the local hunting company but the hunt continues.
“The draft bill on the hunting act is about to be filed and coordinated with the Council of Ministers,” Associate Professor Georgi Kostov said speaking at the opening ceremony.
The deputy minister commented further that the draft bill would probably undergo certain changes while examined by the different committees but added that the major goal was to adopt it as soon as possible.
The draft bill regulates the hunting seasons and deadlines.
“Hunting two weeks after New Year’s Eve is not very humane towards the animals since this is the end of the mating season. We want to return the old practices – the hunting to continue until December 31 or until the first Saturday and Sunday of January, so as to use the days-off. The humane approach has a leading role here,” Mr Kostov explained.
The deputy minister wished the hunters sound health and luck and to return safe and alive after every hunting.
“Good luck and successful hunt,” Mr Kostov remarked.
“Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food is open for dialogue with all interested parties, and most of all with the national hunting associations, which representing the hunting lovers. The contacts with these people at the field are very important to us so as to outline and the problems and shortcomings, understand them and eventually solve them,” Deputy Minister o Georgi Kostov said.
“We should take care of the Bulgarian nature, the Bulgarian game diversity and the biological diversity as a whole. We should eliminate the ugly phenomena, which have always been present but it seems that they have started decreasing – the poaching. This is a theft from the nature,” the deputy minister remarked.
“Bulgaria reports between 8% and 12% rise in the different game species over the past years,” Ivan Petkov, member of the management board of the National Association of Hunters and Fishermen in Bulgaria, said speaking at the opening ceremony.
The figures are presented in an analysis worked out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
According to the report, the major game species – wild boar, red deer and roe deer, are reporting sustainable growth pace.

Source: www.focus-fen.net