Hunting season
Schwarzwild Asturias
Schwarzwild, the hunters' term for the wild boar (Sus scrofa), is one of the most demanding and most intensively hunted species of cloven game in Central Europe. As a highly adaptable omnivore with a tightly knit, matriarchal sounder structure, it rewards careful fieldcraft and disciplined behaviour at the stand.
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When may Schwarzwild be hunted in Asturias?
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Exact dates
Jabalí · Modalidad: Rececho · Terrenos de régimen cinegético especial · Jabalí
- 2025-04-01 → 2026-02-28
Queda prohibido el ejercicio de la caza mayor en los terrenos cinegéticos de aprovechamiento cinegético común (zonas libres), excepción hecha de las cacerías que expresamente autorice la Dirección General de Planificación Agraria. En las batidas y recechos de corzo macho en los Cotos de Caza, se autoriza la caza de jabalíes adultos sin cupo.
Jabalí · Modalidad: Batida · Terrenos de régimen cinegético especial · Jabalí
- 2025-08-09 → 2026-02-28· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,fri
Queda prohibido el ejercicio de la caza mayor en los terrenos cinegéticos de aprovechamiento cinegético común (zonas libres), excepción hecha de las cacerías que expresamente autorice la Dirección General de Planificación Agraria. En las batidas y recechos de corzo macho en los Cotos de Caza, se autoriza la caza de jabalíes adultos sin cupo. En las batidas de jabalí podrán abatirse ejemplares de las especies venado y gamo en aquellos Cotos Regionales de Caza que así lo soliciten en el Plan de Aprovechamiento correspondiente, mediante una adecuada justificación técnica.
Jabalí · Modalidad: General (excl. Rececho y batida) · Terrenos de régimen cinegético especial · Jabalí
- 2023-04-01 → 2023-06-30
- 2023-09-01 → 2023-10-31· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,fri
Queda prohibido el ejercicio de la caza mayor en los terrenos cinegéticos de aprovechamiento cinegético común (zonas libres), excepción hecha de las cacerías que expresamente autorice la Dirección General del Medio Natural y Planificación Rural.
About Schwarzwild
Wild boar favour structurally rich deciduous and mixed forests with a high share of oak and beech, but increasingly use farmland and damp lowlands as well. Wallows, water sources, and dense daytime cover are essential parts of suitable habitat, since boar cannot sweat and regulate their body temperature through wallowing in mud. Originally diurnal, their activity peak has shifted into the evening and night hours under modern levels of human disturbance.
The basic social unit is the sounder, the Rotte, led by an experienced lead sow, the Leitbache. It consists of related sows with their piglets, the Frischlinge, and yearlings, the Überläufer, while older boars live mostly solitary and only join the sounders during the rut. In German-speaking Europe, Schwarzwild is hunted above all from the high seat, the Ansitz, often at a baiting site, the Kirrung, during the evening and early night hours, and on coordinated driven hunts, Drück- and Stöberjagden, with well-trained, suitable dogs. Stalking, the Pirsch, plays a complementary role, particularly on moonlit nights.
Ethical hunting practice puts special weight on protecting the lead sow, because losing her disrupts the social order and ranging behaviour of the entire sounder. At the same time, hunters carry real responsibility for keeping numbers in check, both to limit damage to agriculture and as part of disease prevention, in particular against African swine fever, which has shaped wild boar management across the region.
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