Question 10686 — hunting and fishing

Summary

Ms. Tiffany Joncour questions the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature on the financial issues faced by the departmental hunter federations during administrative raids. These operations, relatively frequent, in certain departments several dozen each season, are ordered by the State or the prefectural services to regulate game populations likely to cause damage to crops, forests or infrastructure. Their smooth running is ensured by hunting federations and local hunters, whose commitment on the ground allows the State and communities to avoid potential repair or compensation costs, sometimes estimated at several hundred thousand euros per department. However, within the framework of the hunting plan each animal collected must be equipped with a marking device, bracelet, necklace or numbered tab, as provided for in article 4 of the decree of February 11, 2020, which sets out the marking procedures: department number, serial number, vintage. This marking constitutes a guarantee of traceability and financing, since the proceeds from the sale of the bracelets feed the budgets of the departmental federations. However, in the within the framework of administrative hunts, it appears that no clear obligation exists to ensure the systematic affixing of a collar or bracelet to slaughtered animals. This absence weakens the traceability of samples and, in fact, blocks or greatly reduces the financial payments which would allow the federations to assume their missions of regulation, damage prevention and hunting management. To illustrate, in a department which imposes 15 euros per bracelet for a deer and 60 euros per bracelet for a deer with a hunting plan, the contributions collected in this way contribute directly to the financing of the departmental federation. When no marking is carried out, these revenues are not generated, even though human and logistical resources and animal processing costs remain. Additionally, the state of public data shows that the regulatory marking devices (bracelets) are used for all planned samples but that nothing guarantees their application within the framework of administrative searches, which creates an unjustified distinction between two forms of samples that are equally useful for the balance of territories. The MP would therefore like to know whether the Government intends to initiate a regulatory change in order to to explicitly impose a marking device, whether a bracelet, a collar or another traceable device, for animals taken during administrative searches and if this device could be accompanied by a financial payment mechanism dedicated to the departmental federations. She also asks for the national or departmental figures available regarding the amounts paid to the federations within the framework administrative searches and, failing that, know an estimate of the funding losses linked to the absence of marking in this framework.

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