Impact of hunting ground, nutrition and chemical factors to mortality, reproduction and use value of pheasant meat (Phasianus colchicus)
2019
Đorđević, Nenad (Faculty of Agriculture, Zemun – Belgrade (Serbia)) | Popović, Zoran (Faculty of Agriculture, Zemun – Belgrade (Serbia)) | Beuković, Dejan (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-0475) | Beuković, Miloš (Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Vukadinović, Marko
The paper presents the impact of some chemical factors on the number of pheasants (losses caused poisoning in hunting ground or reduced reproduction rate) and use value of meat (presence of pesticides, heavy metals and industrial contaminants in tissues and organs). Certain types of pesticides can be a major problem in hunting grounds because they are the cause of increased mortality of pheasants, both due to environmental choices and diet. In addition, the use of insecticides reduces the availability of natural food for pheasants (primarily for youngsters), and negatively affects the rate of reproduction. The increasing content of heavy metals and pesticides in various tissues and organs of hunting game is the result of human activity in agriculture, general environmental pollution from industrial plants and increasingly intense traffic. The meat of game, primarily pheasants, is consumed relatively freely in hunter families, whose number in Serbia makes up about 1% of the population. Therefore, more and more attention is paid to the presence of heavy metals, but also pesticides, in the meat and internal organs of this and other game species. Previous studies have shown that the remains of Cd, Pb and Hg are the smallest in the muscle tissue, but that they have a significantly higher percentage of intestines, so their consumption is not recommended for pregnant women, nursing mothers and children. Measures to address these problems are in strict control of the use of pesticides, maximum environmental care, as well as in organic agricultural production.
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