The Ministry monitors the information relating to the shooting, based on monthly reports submitted by the Polish Union of hunters. The most recent of them indicates that for the whole season from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 hunters destroyed 275 337 boars. The minimum plan assumed the shooting of 185 271 individuals.
Due to the very high number of wild boar population and spread of ASF, the authorities do not establish upper limits for hunting. Specify only the minimum that needs to be done.
The mass shooting of wild pigs in Poland is not an exception. As reported earlier, the German hunters ' Union (DJV), only in season 2017/2018 in Germany was shot more than 800 thousand wild boars, that is, three times more than in Poland.
Achs is a fast-spreading infectious viral disease. Its occurrence in a herd leads to major loss of production. Since the beginning of this year in Poland was identified 937 cases. If we fail to stop the spread of ASF in Poland, the whole EU faces the blocking of pork imports from the foreign partners.
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