Trapping derogation being correctly applied – FKNK
The Hunting Federation (FKNK) has denied allegations from Birdlife that the autumn trapping derogation is being abused by trappers catching finches.
Conservation NGO Birdlife said last week that trappers were exploiting their exemption to trap golden plover and song thrush to also trap finches.
FKNK pointed out that the 1,100 or so trappers who applied for the special trapping licence had to produce a map of two trapping sites, duly registered with the police.
“No trapper is so stupid as to jeopardise his situation and try to abuse any legal system... (when) the trapper himself has already disclosed his geographical position to the authorities,” the FKNK said in a statement.
Secondly, the methods used for the trapping of golden plover and song thrush are not the same as those used for live-finch capturing, the Hunting Federation added.
The 30mm-squared net mesh commonly used to trap the two species covered by the derogation is too wide to entangle finches, according to the FKNK.
The FKNK praised the police for enforcing the derogation.
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Chris Finch
Nov 29th 2012, 09:57
“No trapper is so stupid as to jeopardise his situation and try to abuse any legal system"
Seems 85 trappers were.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121120/local/85-guilty-of-trapping-illegally.446099
I assume that under the FKNK zero tolerance policy, that these have all now been expelled from the club.
G Caruana
Nov 28th 2012, 20:21
Trapping derogation being correctly applied – FKNK
November 20, 2012 85 guilty of trapping illegally
J. Vella
Nov 28th 2012, 21:52
Mr. Caruana, can you make difference between your two statements? the fknk stated that the trapping derogation according to eu is correctly applied.... if did not mean that no illegalities are taking place.... so your other statement of 85 trapping illegally means nothing more than that the police are doing their job!
Emanuel Curmi
Nov 29th 2012, 08:40
Dear Mr Vella, I believe that the one twisting words is the FKNK because the claims made by BL is actually being backed by the large number of illegal trapping abuses. If the derogation is serving as a facade for illegal finch trapping - and the numbers prove that - the denials by FKNK sound extremely foolish to say the least. Suggest u read the first sentence again but carefully this time.
J. Vella
Nov 29th 2012, 18:41
Mr Curmi...could you please state if those illegal bird trappers had license for song thrush or golden plover and were abusing from it? or they were only trapping finches? could you also please search or ask how much illegal trappers were caught when it was illegal even for trapping song thrush? it means that illegalities will always happen my friend!
Franco Farrugia
Nov 28th 2012, 19:55
FKNK is not stupid enough to admit that there is abuse going on.
Pippo de Marco
Nov 29th 2012, 19:08
Really ?
Franco Farrugia
Nov 30th 2012, 12:34
@ P.D. Really.
Please choose the reason of your report below: