Winners of the Gipuzkoa Wild Boar Trail Dog Championship.
hunting and fishing
Last weekend the XI Gipuzkoa Wild Boar Trail Dog Championship was held in Segura
Organized by the Gipuzkoa Hunting Federation and the Basurde Society of Berastegi, last weekend in Gorosmendi (Berastegi) the XI Gipuzkoa Championship of Wild Boar Tracking Dogs was held. A total of 12 dogs competed in the test, judged by the Gipuzkoan Juan Carlos Murua. The competition began at 9:00 a.m., with a qualifying first, to later dispute the grand final with the five best dogs. Ibon Egaña won the Gipuzkoa Champion txapela with his Cantabrian hound ‘Lira’, which achieved a total of 211 points. Second place went to Arkaitz Etxarri with his hound ‘Pumuka’ with a total of 206 points, third place being Arkaitz Ostolaza with his hound ‘Gorri’ with a total of 201 points. The other two finalists were José Ignacio Zubizarreta with his hound ‘Luna’ who got a total of 200 points and Juan Cruz Zubizarreta with his hound ‘Txato’ who finished with 181 points.
Perfect organization and great work by the specialty delegate Jose Angel Olariaga and his team. The next event will be the Euskadi Wild Boar Trail Championship, which will be held at Coto el Castillo on May 21, in which those classified in the three territorial championships will compete and where the last winner Mikel Iturralde and his mestizo will defend the title. Row’.
End of the big game
Last Sunday, April 10, the 2021/2022 big game hunting season ended in Gipuzkoa. After eight months of the hunting season, it is possible to bend the upward catch curve, which had generated six consecutive campaigns with a record of catches and which in this campaign has dropped to 2,148 wild boars hunted, compared to 2,644 captured in the previous campaign. The roe deer, like the wild boar, has suffered a notable decrease in the number of captures, reaching 1,189 roe deer captures compared to the 1,656 roe deer captured last season.
In short, great work by the big game hunters to stabilize the populations of wild boar and roe deer, which without their action would generate an unsustainable situation in relation to damage to agriculture and road accidents.
Concentration in defense of the quail
The Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation (RFEC) has announced that it will meet on March 21 at the doors of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) to demand that the proposal be withdrawn to declare the quail as an “endangered species” of the next Flora and Fauna Committee, which would mean the end of their hunt. In this concentration, the RFEC and the autonomous hunting federations will demand the dismissal of Minister Teresa Ribera for what this new deliberate attack on the hunting sector implies since, with this declaration, the quail would cease to be a hunting species in our country.
This concentration will be attended by the president of the RFEC, presidents and directors of all the Autonomous Hunting Federations, as well as other entities in the sector and hunters in the country. During the claim, all members of the MITECO Flora and Fauna Committee on April 22 will be reminded that in the SEO-BirdLife request on which this declaration will be based, the hunting sector has not been taken into account, Ministry of Agriculture, nor to the scientific community. In fact, the MITECO Scientific Committee has deliberately omitted the scientific data from the quail studies that have been carried out in Spain over the last 20 years.
According to the President of the Spanish Hunting Federation, “with this new concentration we will again remind the Government of Spain that the orange tide that took to the streets on March 20 to demand the end of anti-hunting policies must be heard. We will not allow another attack against our sector and we are going to show it to them.”
Basic sport shooting course
The Guipuzcoan Hunting Federation informs us that there are places left for the basic sports shooting course, which Marcelo Clavero will teach, on the weekend of May 21 and 22, 2022, at the Arkale Hunting School (Oiartzun).
Bow hunting course
The Guipuzcoan Hunting Federation has scheduled for May 7th and 8th at the Arkale Hunting School, the course – proficiency test for bowhunting in Gipuzkoa (TCaza) and the course for obtaining the level archer license. qualified (T2). Places are limited and will be awarded in order of receipt until April 25 in the case of T2 and until April 29 in the case of Tcaza.
Spanish Fly Salmon Championship
The Galician fisherman, José Luis Fernández, won last weekend in Asturian lands the victory in the XXXII Spanish Fly Salmon Championship. Fernández prevailed with authority over the 128 fishermen who competed in the test, capturing a total of 28 trout. In second position was his selection partner David Arcay with 26 trout, closing the podium the fisherman from Castilla y León Juan Carlos Castro with 24 trout. The best of our representatives has been Julen Aguado in eleventh place overall with 21 trout and sixth among high-level fishermen. By teams victory for the Galician National Team, ahead of Castilla y León and Catalonia. Bad luck for the Euskadi team that was left on the podium in fourth position, two points behind the bronze.
boat at anchor
The Basque Federation of Fishing and Casting calls for the next May 8, 2022, in the waters of Pasaia, the Euskadi Anchored Boat Championship. The Territorial Federations will close the inscriptions for this championship on Friday, April 29 at 2:00 p.m.
