MAPS. Hunting: Here are the opening and closing dates in 2022-2023 in your department

If you live in the countryside, you may have heard some gunshots. For good reason, since the end of August, the hunting it is gradually conquering the territory.

More not everywhere at the same time. The first departments to have opened the ballot on 23 August 2022 are therefore located in the Grand East: Upper Rhine, Lower Rhine and Moselle. The last authorized hunters will be those of the English Channel, the Indre or even the Eure-et-Loir.

Different dates depending on the departments

As every year, the opening dates for hunting are defined by prefectoral decrees, pursuant to art article R424-7 of the Environmental Code. For the 2022-2023 season, the hunting period is spread across mainland France over a month, from 23 August to 25 September 2022 – unless local derogation authorizes hunting outside this period.

Here are the opening dates hunting for the 2022-2023 season:

• 23 August 2022 : Moselle, Lower Rhine and Upper Rhine;
• September 4, 2022 : Southern Corsica and Upper Corsica;
• September 11, 2022 : Ain, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Aude, Aveyron, Bouches-du-Rhône, Cantal, Charente, Corrèze, Creuse, Dordogne, Doubs, Drôme, Gard, Gers, Haute -Garonna, Hérault, Gironde, Isère, Jura, Landes, Loire, Haute-Loire, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Lozère, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Haute -Saona, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Var, Vaucluse, Vienne, Haute-Vienne and the territory of Belfort;
• September 18, 2022 : Aisne, Allier, Ardennes, Aube, Calvados, Côte-d’Or, Côtes-d’Armor, Eure, Finistère, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre-et-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Maine-et-Loire , Marne, Haute-Marne, Mayenne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Morbihan, Nièvre, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Saône-et-Loire, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Somme , Vendée, Vosges, Yonne, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne and Oise;
• September 25, 2022 : Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Loir-et-Cher, Manche, Orne, Sarthe.

Three departments offer two distinct dates: Ariège (opening of hunting on 11 September 2022 for the lowlands and 18 September 2022 for the mountain area), Charente-Maritime (11 September 2022 with the exception of Aix, where hunting begins in September 18, 2022) and Deux-Sèvres (September 11, 2022 except Niort, where hunters can operate from September 25, 2022).

In France there is 94 departmental federations of huntersone per department, “with the exception of an interdepartmental federation for the departments of Paris, Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne and Val-d’Oise”, specifies the National Federation of Hunters.

In the overseas departments, however, the hunt began earlier:

• Reunion (974): 1^is January 2022
• Guadeloupe (971) and Saint-Martin (978): 30 July 2022
• Martinique (972): July 31, 2022
• Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (975): 3 September 2022

And the closing dates?

From January 2023, hunters can no longer continue their activity in some departments, but most of the territory closes the hunt at the end of February.

Therefore, according to the data of the National Federation of Hunters, closing dates hunting are:

• January 8, 2023 : the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the Hautes-Alpes, the Alpes-Maritimes.
• January 15, 2023 : Haute-Savoie.
• January 29, 2023 : Savoy.
• January 31, 2023 : Lozère
• February 1, 2023 : Aveyron, Moselle, Lower Rhine, Upper Rhine
• February 8, 2023 : Southern Corsica
• February 28, 2023 : Ain, Aisne, Allier, Ardèche, Ardenne, Ariège, Aube, Aude, Bouches-du-Rhône, Calvados, Cantal, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Corrèze, Haute-Corse, Côte-d’Or, Côtes-d ‘Armor, Creuse, Dordogne, Doubs, Drôme, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Finistère, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Gironde, Hérault, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Landes, Loir-et – Cher, Loire, Haute-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Marne, Haute-Marne, Mayenne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Morbihan, Nièvre , Nord, Oise, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Rhône, Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Sarthe, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne , Yvelines, Deux-Sèvres, Somme, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Var, Vaucluse, Vendee, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Vosges, Y onne, the territory of Belfort, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint -Denis, Val-de-Marne.
• March 31, 2023 : Ille-et-Vilaine.

La Val-d’Oise plays on two tables: like most French departments, hunting is prohibited there since February 28, 2023, but wild boar hunting ends there earlier, on March 31, 2023.

What are the rules for hunting?

In France, the practice of hunting is subject to in possession of a licensewhich takes the form of a document authorizing hunting in a territory and for a specific period.

It is issued by the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) and follows strict rules provided for by the Environmental Code and what they are:

• Be at least 16 years old;
• Produce the required medical certificate;
• Not to be under guardianship unless authorized by the tutelary judge;
• Not be deprived of the right to bear arms;
• Not having been convicted of a hunting police offense and being in good standing with previous convictions;
• Not having been sentenced to more than 6 months’ imprisonment for rebellion or violence against agents of the public authority;
• It is not forbidden to stay;
• He sees no opposition to the practice of hunting on his property;
• Not be deprived of the right to retain or obtain a hunting license;
• Not to be registered in the national automated name file of persons who are prohibited from acquiring and possessing weapons.

The license is issued after an examination. If it is a life document, therefore valid for life, it must be renewed every year by a departmental federation of hunters in order to remain valid. Otherwise it will be impossible for the hunter to take advantage of the hunting season.

And be careful, warns the ministry of ecological transition and territorial cohesion : “Hunting without permission is punished with a fine of up to up to 1,500 euros. Hunting without authorization is punished with a fine of up to 38 euros. “

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