Game management and Fishery

Stock numbers of fallow-deer, wild-boar and mufflon are carefully managed (table 12). With the development of habitats, the number of natural populations of small games should increase (diagrams 26-27).
    In order to introduce new management measures in hunting, the 1996 LV Act on the protection, management and hunting of game, created County Hunting Authorities . These controlling oorganisations belong to the county agricultural authorities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. This way the two-level system of hunting management was strengthened and the controls have improved.
    The Hungarian fishery is divided into pond fishery and fish management on natural waters. There are 140 thousand hectares of natural waters and 20 thousand hectares of fish ponds. On natural waters, fishing can be either for commercial, or for recreational purposes. Fish ponds are used for the production of commercial fish and young fish for the maintenance of fish colonies in natural waters (table 13).