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Hunting. Captures. By species. Provinces

Caça. Captures. Per espècies. Províncies 2006
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalunya
Caça menor
Ànec 2,128 3,812 678 14,917 21,535
Becada 4,959 4,934 471 1,004 11,368
Becadells 333 1,444 158 2,096 4,031
Colins 33,909 0 0 0 33,909
Colom 1,334 5,492 6,271 3,253 16,350
Conill 33,909 15,643 44,644 44,510 138,706
Estornells 11,285 48,746 3,526 26,528 90,085
Faisà 15,148 13,262 1,898 3,451 33,759
Fotja 147 15 85 883 1,130
Gaig 730 190 0 0 920
Garsa 6,961 2,043 7,782 4,538 21,324
Guatlla 8,718 5,663 18,861 691 33,933
Guineu 1,248 966 855 1,105 4,174
Llebre 1,141 1,481 3,273 677 6,572
Perdiu roja 28,849 27,011 28,036 29,582 113,478
Perdiu xerra 1 169 106 0 276
Tord i griva 38,738 90,823 34,252 291,214 455,027
Tórtora 6,052 12,198 8,778 6,967 33,995
Tudó 38,909 15,586 9,853 22,879 87,227
Altres 0 25,500 0 77 25,577
Caça major
Cabirol 182 73 96 0 351
Cabra salvatge 15 0 0 298 313
Cérvol 64 122 218 2 406
Daina 0 150 98 4 252
Isard 90 197 279 0 566
Mufló 0 395 6 0 401
Porc senglar 7,939 9,745 4,312 2,422 24,418
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 "..".