FKNK calls on government to announce autumn hunting season's dates

Hunters and trappers complain of being ‘tortured’. 

Only three weeks prior to the opening of the autumn season, the hunters lamented that government has not yet announced the dates of the autumn hunting season.

The Hunters’ Federation, FKNK, said that the Ornis Committee had put forward its recommendations two months ago, but government has not yet come back with a reply.

It added that this despite the fact that the majority of hunters and trappers had already paid their licences in January.

FKNK said that whilst hunters and trappers worldwide had fixed hunting seasons, it criticised the Maltese government “for persisting in torturing thousands of Maltese and Gozitans who have such pastimes.”

“We are not talking about the spring season, but on seasons in which there should never have been any problems,” secretary general Lino Farrugia said.

FKNK called on government to immediately announce the autumn season, adding that this would give “direction and stability.