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Hunting. Captures. By species. Provinces

Hunting. Captures. By species. Provinces Catalonia
Small game Duck Woodcock Snipe Pigeon Rabbit Starling Pheasant Coot Lapwing Magpie Yellow-legged gull Black-headed gull Common quail Red fox Hare Red-legged partridge Grey partridge Thrush Turtle dove Wood pigeon Garganey Teal Pochard Xixella Big game Roe deer Wild goat Deer Fallow deer Chamois Couflon Wild boar
2013 22,164 10,725 5,995 22,431 169,159 86,344 17,584 6,190 1,173 26,505 489 883 38,668 6,473 5,567 89,479 1,451 747,927 25,053 107,601 47 5,098 451 2,219 1,952 284 1,359 363 642 409 35,393
2012 23,179 10,917 4,923 23,657 194,221 78,370 17,262 4,990 1,370 25,651 387 706 43,114 6,407 7,260 114,609 198 866,005 29,358 117,793 83 3,548 328 2,252 1,653 352 1,063 384 553 446 32,665
2011 16,591 8,302 4,331 18,688 210,219 65,926 22,983 3,365 1,252 24,341 295 195 30,366 5,994 9,536 110,416 326 807,423 27,083 89,637 0 2,807 468 1,939 1,211 358 1,271 542 411 392 29,696
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
Note: The hunting season begins at the in early October and ends in late February.

Last update: July 7, 2016.

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 "..".