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The human activities linked to aquaculture and to professional fishing are allowed and favoured in the Park wetlands, since they are very important for economy and employment and because, in some cases, they are activities with a great historical and traditional value. The Delta territory includes different types of water expanses: the so-called “Valli” are inner basins of fresh, brackish, or salt water, whose communication with external waters (river or sea) is artificially enabled through locks and/or dewatering pumps. Some typical examples are the Valli di Comacchio, the expansion basins Casse di espansione di Campotto and Valle Mandriole. The “lagune” (lagoons) are fresh, brackish, or salt water basins, whose communication with the sea is given by a large opening enabling the ebb and the flow of the tides; an example of lagoon is Sacca di Goro. Finally, there are inner Valli freely communicating with the sea: they are basins subject to the influence of tides through the canals (Valle Fattibello, the wetlands Piallasse della Baiona, and Piombone). Fishing – considered as each action aiming at catching fish – can be divided into different typologies as well: professional fishing, and the gathering of molluscs with it, and sport fishing. Sport fishing is usually allowed within the Park and pre-Park areas, except for A zones and some other particular areas established by the Territorial Plan and quoted in the Regulations, where environmental conditions, the presence of species whose conservation is crucial, or the development of delicate stages of the biological cycle of Fish, have led to the introduction of temporary or permanent fishing prohibitions. Whatever the case, fishing is carefully regulated by the Park Authority, in order to ensure the conservation of the fish fauna in the Protected Area, with particular attention to those species whose conservation is crucial. Aquaculture is a somewhat different activity from what we usually call fishing (that is, the simple gathering of a natural resource). The so-called “vallicoltura”, or lagoon fish breeding, is the traditional and extensive fish breeding which has been practised since several centuries in the Valli of the Po Delta: here fishes are caught by exploiting their mass migratory movements at the exit of inner basins. The fish gathering is carried out with a typical structure called “lavoriero”, placed next to the breeding basins. According to Part X of the regional law 3/99, from 1st January 2000 the coastal Provinces of Emilia-Romagna have been entrusted with the concession and payment of contributions, as well as with the control over these contributions' allocation (according to the L.R. 3/79, legal destinations include purchase of boats, boat equipment, transformation, fish commercialisation and storage, means of transport, etc.). Criteria and guidelines for the provincial fishing programmes and for the discipline of the “huts” used for sport fishing (PDF, Italian text - 48Kb) |