• Czech Republic now partner country
• Highlight: European Deer Calling Championship

The JAGD & HUND 2009 (03.-08.02.2009) can already report booking figures which are well above average. The very high level reached last year has been topped: in comparison to the same time last year, i.e. four months ahead of the Trade Fair start, the area of space rented out and the number of main exhibitors is seeing a good increase. Again in 2009, Europe’s leading exhibition for hunting and angling will once more prove to be a major attraction for hunters, anglers, dog and nature-lovers from at home and abroad. Highlights such as the European Stag Calling Championship and the presenting of the partner country, the Czech Republic, will in 2009 contribute to the increase in international significance of the Trade Fair.

For more than ten years now the German Deer Calling Championship has formed the attraction at the JAGD & HUND Trade Fair. Now — for the first time again since 2000 — the European Championship is to take place in Dortmund. On 7th February 2009 the best of Europe’s deer callers will show who is the greatest in this royal discipline. After all, the art of “calling the deer“ is an extremely challenging hunting craft and belongs — as the “haut école“ of bait and call-hunting — to a tradition that extends back over centuries. The aim of deer calling is to impersonate a rival to the old bull on the mating ground during the red-deer mating season from September to the beginning of October, so that the old bull comes closer and out of his cover. Several national heats have already been held and many countries have registered their participants for this, the 11th European Championship. The German deer callers will be qualifying in Hanover on 6th December 2008. In the last European Championship in the Czech Republic there were altogether 25 deer callers from nine nations taking part. Traditionally it has always been the Czechs, Poles and Hungarians who have dominated. The winners came from the hosting country, Michal France (1st place) and Lubomir Dolezal (2nd place). Third was Pole Andrzej Misiak. The organisers in the editorial department of WILD UND HUND and the Messe Westfalenhallen Dortmund GmbH are reckoning with similarly impressive participation numbers in Dortmund.

It is precisely on an international level that JAGD & HUND plays such an important role: Not only does every one in four exhibitors and 12 percent of the visitors come from abroad but the Trade Fair has for years now been offering the most extensive presentation of international hunting trips within Europe. Within the framework of the programme for partner countries it is the Czech Republic who will be the official partner country of the JAGD & HUND in 2009. The Czech Republic will not only present at the Trade Fair the talents of the trade of its manufacturers of hunting and angling equipment, but will also demonstrate the opportunities for hunting and fishing in the Czech grounds. In the Czech Republic there are 5,700 hunting grounds with an average area of 1,200 ha. and 190 game reserves. Sport fishing in the Czech Republic makes up the economic activity in over 3,000 different fishing grounds along with the related exercising of fishing rights. Hunting and angling trips and holidays in the most beautiful grounds in the Czech Republic can be booked directly through commercial exhibitors from the partner country. On top of that visitors will receive all kinds of information on the subject of agriculture and the political and economical systems in the Czech Republic and also an information service for establishing contact with Czech companies, associations and institutes.

The range JAGD & HUND has to offer stretches altogether from the looking after and care of game, to hunting equipment, hunting institutions, hunting tours, hunting vehicles and hunting lodges, equipment for fishery and fishing, angling holidays and angling equipment through to countryside protection and nature conservation.

Media information 123 / 2008 - 08.10.2008
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