Question 13465 — hunting and fishing

Summary

Mr. Jean-Pierre Cubertafon alerts the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the increase in game damage and the need to fight against it. Today there is an increase in game damage to crops, meadows, orchards, silos and the installation of large groups of animals in agricultural plots. The financial impact of this game damage is increasingly significant between crop losses and restoration costs. Many farmers are discouraged by the complex administrative procedures for obtaining compensation. Also note the health risk of bovine tuberculosis and African swine fever carried by game and transmitted to farm animals. In many sectors, hunting plans prove insufficient, despite the increase in the number of game hunted (more than 2,600 wild boars additional in 2017). The lack of will to act on the part of certain hunting societies as well as their disagreement gives limited effectiveness to administrative raids. Also, he draws his attention to the need to implement a proactive policy on this subject, in particular by making hunting companies responsible and opening hunting rights to problematic species, wild boar in particular. Furthermore, it appears necessary to reduce and simplify damage declarations for farmers, as well as to better support them financially.

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