The hunters' federation has called on the government to make the obstruction of hunting an infringement and punishable by a fine.

Quoting a recently enacted French decree, the federation said the Prime Minister would do well to look into enacting a similar law locally to fight "concentrated and collaborative obstructive efforts against traditional socio-cultural hunting".

Following an addition in the environment code, France has made such contraventions "punishable by fines when concerted acts of obstruction, preventing the conduct of one or more acts as hunting, occur".