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ŠUMARSKI LIST 5-6/2023 str. 77     <-- 77 -->        PDF

Incomes of roe deer management in the hunting grounds of Central Serbia
Profiti gospodarenja srnećom divljači u lovištima središnje Srbije
Marija Popović, Hristo Mihaylov, Nikola Mihajlović, Zoran Popović
Summary
The aim of this paper is to analyze the total breeding stock market in 2021/2022, an estimate of the value of the stock of this type of game, the culling value and income per 100 ha of total hunting areas of all hunting grounds in Central Serbia. This research covered the roe deer breeding stock in the hunting grounds of central Serbia. Based on the analysis, the directions and possibilities for increasing the income in all hunting areas of Serbia has been considered. The assessment of the value of the roe deer breeding stock was determined according to the Rulebook (Official Gazette, No. 18/19), while the income from roe deer culling was calculated using the market price list given by the Hunting Association of Serbia for 2021/2022. It was determined that the value of the male roe deer stock is 6.506.000 €, while the value of the female and offspring stock is approximately 3.615.000€. Total income of culled game in 2017/2018 was 480.626 €, while the income per 100 ha of the total area of all hunting areas is 9€. The highest total income is generated by the Central Hunting ground and it amounts to 191.785 €. In order to achieve a higher profit from the management of roe deer at the hunting grounds of central Serbia, it is necessary to completely fulfill the planned culling with an increased inclusion of roebucks that have higher trophy mass.
Key words: roe deer, culling, economic aspects, income, Serbia
Introduction
Uvod
According to the Serbian Game and Hunting Act (Anon., 2010), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) is classified as a big game protected by Close Season. Roe deer is a highly adaptable mammalian species, widespread in Europe, as well as in parts of the Asian continent (Stubbe, 2008).
Game populations in Serbia are managed through various hunting ground users, where the largest number of hunting grounds and the largest areas (almost 90 %) are managed by hunting associations. In Serbia, roe deer live in a large number of different habitats ranging from the Pannonian lowlands to mountain massifs, but their population numbers differ in some areas and vary depending on habitat conditions (Gajić and Popović, 2010). Оn 1000 ha of hunting-productive hunting area, the average density of roe deer varies from 48.67 to 74 individuals (Popović et al., 2021). From the aspect of the hunting tourism development roe deer is also very important, moreover, roe deer is attractive to the hunters not only because of the trophy (Popović et al., 2020) but also because of the tasty and nutritious meat (Ivanović et al., 2020).
The goal of managing the roe deer population is raising and maintaining their populations as well as trophy values in