The African Swine Fever (ASF) epidemic detected in Catalonia has now highlighted the social, environmental and economic dysfunctions that generate the overpopulation of wild boars and has accelerated the search for solutions to eradicate a problem that has lasted for years. The Generalitat challenges the need to activate mechanisms to be able to eliminate 60,000 wild boars in the medium term, with the aim of reducing the presence of this animal in the majority of forest areas of the community, where an average of 6.2 specimens per square kilometer is calculated, but with critical points where the incidence often triples. “Sobran jabalíes en Cataluña”, he said advise of Agriculture Òscar Ordeig, in an intervention in Parliament, who performed the duet with the head of the Interior, Núria Parlon.
According to the data weighing on the government, during the coldest months of the year, 125,000 wild boars camp in their areas of Catalonia, and the number of eggs increases as they arrive for a long time and during the breeding season. Before the outbreak of the ASF germ, 13 positive cases were currently recorded, all in towns in the Collserola region, the president Salvador Illa alerted you to the need to concentrate your efforts on your saving brains: “There are too many,” I said.
El advise Ordeig quantified the Government’s intentions, revealing that the intention is to reduce the 125,000 copies already counted. For this, the complexity of the hunters is sought, with aid of between 18 and 30 euros for each piece captured. “When we talk about catches, these are obviously sacrifices,” specifies the Ministry of Agriculture. There are 58,000 hunting licenses in force in Catalonia, but the collective is suffering from gradual aging.
PP MP Eva García stressed that “hunters are part of the solution, they are not enemies”, but it is doubtful that the Government will end up giving freedom of action to this collective: “The Government is obliged to the far left parties, we will see if they allow us to count on the collaboration of these hunters”, said García. “The izquierdas are perjudicial, and all these animalist parties too,” abounded.
From Together for Catalonia, MP Jeannine Abella valued technical work to contain growth but criticized the government’s lack of agility to mitigate the effects of the market blockade and losses for the pork sector: “There are 40,000 pieces of work at stake”, she warned, and declared that only Japan buys “15,000 tonnes on average monthly” of cerdo meat in Catalonia.
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