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Hunting. Captures. By species. Provinces

Caça. Captures. Per espècies. Províncies 2005
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalunya
Caça menor
Ànec 2,227 1,920 1,806 24,894 30,847
Becada 4,685 3,631 1,145 998 10,459
Becadells 346 312 256 3,661 4,575
Colins 80 1,300 20 0 1,400
Colom 1,483 1,843 10,226 3,866 17,418
Conill 35,446 10,982 56,384 50,938 153,750
Estornells 11,244 33,589 15,789 26,313 86,935
Faisà 20,157 6,968 2,576 4,213 33,914
Fotja 212 12 118 2,323 2,665
Gaig 1,382 107 0 7 1,496
Garsa 8,142 1,177 18,288 6,772 34,379
Guatlla 27,199 14,108 31,747 5,867 78,921
Guineu 2,025 789 1,963 1,658 6,435
Llebre 1,503 1,096 2,169 1,405 6,173
Perdiu roja 39,297 16,779 53,427 38,574 148,077
Perdiu xerra 391 152 456 0 999
Tord i griva 46,100 72,426 137,638 368,666 624,830
Tórtora 7,001 8,596 12,642 7,881 36,120
Tudó 40,390 12,140 18,432 25,141 96,103
Altres 1,500 755 1,784 1,646 5,685
Caça major
Cabirol 139 220 161 0 520
Cabra salvatge 19 0 0 236 255
Cérvol 56 69 204 2 331
Daina 0 64 45 0 109
Isard 435 182 295 0 912
Mufló 0 267 18 0 285
Porc senglar 7,935 6,661 5,888 2,141 22,625
Source: Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge. Direcció General del Medi Natural.
Note: La temporada de caça s'inicia a principis d'octubre i es tanca a principis de febrer.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Big game
Large animals, with low annual mortality and high life expectancy. In order to reduce the inevitable competence for growth, these species have a low reproduction rate. The margin for hunting them is lower, as these species do not have a natural capacity to recover their original values prior to each year's hunting season.
Small game
Small animals. Their populations typically have high reproduction rates that also enable them to have high breeding rates. They are some of the species considered to be prey, subjected to predators. Therefore, they can actively respond to severe reductions in number.

Methodological aspects

Hunting is a sport or recreational activity, therefore in order to do it, several aspects must be taken into account, such as the procedures to obtain licences and permits, the places where hunting is permitted, the time of the year it can be done, game species, etc. There is a also a Strategic Plan which aims to define a hunting model that is sustainable within nature and compatible with other territorial activities.

The small all the hunting species of birds and four mammal species: rabbit, European hare, Iberian hare and fox. Due to its abundance and general distribution in all the territory, it is the most common and popular hunting. The number of catches at the end of the season is higher as well, though the regeneration capacity in certain parameters allows the recovery of populations.

In our country, all the big game species belong to the ungulates group, which includes deer (Cervus elaphus), fallow (Dama dama), roe deer (Capreolus sp), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), wild goat (Capra hispanica), wild boar (Sus scrofa) and mouflon (Ovis musimon). Though a wrong management and insufficient conservation made that many of these species disappear at their natural distribution areas, nowadays are model for habitats recovery and right management done in many years of work.

The captures shown in this table are those carried out in private and local hunting areas, controlled hunting areas and national reserves during the hunting season. The season is approved by means of an annual resolution which establishes which species may be hunted, the stipulated hunting periods and the special closures for each season.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".