The importance of pheasant population for hunting tourism in Vojvodina

Abstract

Pheasant still remains, and will continue to be one of the most important kinds of game in Vojvodina’s hunting-tourism. To achieve the desired results we need to increase the number of pheasant chicks than the current number. To do this we need to go back to the end of 70’s and beginning of the 80’s. In this period, until the start of the 90’s, the number of pheasants chicks was between 250 and 320 thousand, all were 6-8 weeks old. This is also the period with the highest number of bagged game in the history of Vojvodina, and also in the history of hunting tourism in Serbia. The number of bagged game was about 25 - 32 thousand pheasants. The positive side of increased number of pheasants chicks is not only the way of securing more game for the domestic hunters, but also for the foreign hunters. This is also the way to increase the number of mother flock. Since the year 1991, for known reasons (the break up of Yugoslavia, wars in the near by countries, and other) the number of hunters drastically dropped, and hunting tourism almost completely disappeared.