OREANDA-NEWS. On 30 January 2009 was announced, that such statement was made by Victor Startsev, the chairman of reindeer-breeding production co-operative "Tundra". He has noticed, that the practice which has begun in Moscow suburbs of creation of the hunting economy has reached and Murmansk area. The number game husbandry in the Polar region is multiplied, but unlike more southern, we offer hunters from other regions an exotic kind of hunting - shooting of wild deer. "But all trouble that under the pretext of wild rich hunters shoot house deer, - Victor Startsev has noted. - if the situation will not change - we will lose primordially polar kind of activity of the radical people - house reindeer breeding".

As he said, in deer herds recently meets more and more wounded animals, and reindeer breeders find remains of hulks of deer in various places of tundra. Last finds have been found out around Serebrjansky road, in tundra Volchej in settlement Foggy. The latest fact of poaching in general has put reindeer breeders in bewilderment. As the chairman of reindeer-breeding production co-operative has explained, during last joint spot-check of reindeer breeders and employees of militia the group of hunters on 8 snowmobiles, consisting of rich businessmen from Moscow and Belgorod has been detained. They conducted hunting for wild deer, but hunted on a river Ponoj left bank. "And here wild deer are not present, - Victor Startsev has noticed, - but in their license there was an artful formulation - river Ponoj area. And it was necessary to write by rules - the right coast of the river Ponoj. But the most awful that at detention of poachers was found out that their guide was local gamekeeper!"

In the created situation reindeer breeders ask to solve a question on that it had been granted the right of carrying of the weapon for shooting of large predators - a glutton and a bear. "And presence of the weapon at shepherds-reindeer breeders becomes an obstacle and in a way of poachers-hunters, - Victor Startsev has noted. - we achieve this right for a long time, we think, that this time the result will be positive. My inquiry in the Murmansk regional thought will be soon considered. To me have let know, that the answer on it will be positive".

Also for putting in order in tundra, and it is not less important, the chairman of reindeer-breeding production co-operative "Tundra" considers, it is necessary to make changes to the current legislation which would order to hunters to show at license delivery gamekeepers a skin, ears and horns of the killed deer on which it is possible to define - whether they are wild or house. "By the way, to define an accessory of a deer to the category wild it is possible to many signs, even on a hoof. It is necessary to undertake decisive steps while market game husbandries have not superseded from Kola peninsula radical reindeer breeders", - Victor Startsev has told.