2024-04-18 02:04:54
Officially, the grape snail season opens on May 1st, but faithful snail collectors are already observing nature, the weather, hoping for warm and humid days, when collecting snails is a pleasure. All you need is a desire, knowing the locations and with favorable purchase prices, two voters can earn up to 1000 euros per month.
It is known that the spine gets tired and the hands hurt from pulling the buckets, you have to bend a lot, but money does not grow on stumps, everywhere you need effort, desire and persistence to make money – says snail picker Stanislava, preparing for the seventh season of grape snails. According to the woman, it would be very good if the buyers took into account the general increase in prices and increased the purchase prices even to 70 cents, last year it was about 50 cents. Then we would already feel the results of the work and the mood of the voters would lighten up.
Every year in the republican press it is written that there are a lot of anti-social unemployed among the ranks of snail voters, but in reality their number is minimal. This work requires physical endurance, health and transport, without which it is impossible to cover longer distances. If you want better earnings, you can’t expect it while on foot. We live near the forest and we still have to drive from place to place to collect the daily rate, Stanislava says. The interviewer is already a senior citizen, but by collecting snails, both she and her husband add to the pensions they receive, and she helps her grandson, who is studying medicine, to some extent.
We look forward to the picking season and hope that health will not fail yet. Not all students have high-income parents, so we help our relatives as much as we can – said the senior citizen, requesting that their surnames and location details not be made public.
According to environmental protection specialists, grape snails are a protected species included in the lists of animal and plant species of importance for the European Community. In order for the population of grape snails to recover and not disappear, restrictions on their collection are necessary. Fines from 60 to 600 euros may be applied to those who do not comply with the established rules.
During the period of purchase of grape snails, legal entities must, in writing or by e-mail, 5 working days before the start of the purchase. inform the Department of Environmental Protection about the places of purchase by e-mail [email protected].
According to the rules for the use of grape snail resources in Lithuania, it is prohibited to collect the resources of these snails in nature reserves, zoological and botanical zoological sanctuaries and other protected areas, if this is provided for by the legal acts regulating the activities of these areas.
Natural persons (pickers) and legal persons (buyers) are allowed to collect and buy snails from the beginning of the growing season of grape snails until July 1. Pickers are allowed to collect grape snails with a diameter of at least 28 mm. Before buying, it is necessary to sort the snails at the place of purchase. Buyers must sort them by diameter. After sorting, no more than 5% can remain at the purchase points. smaller grape snails than allowed. For illegal catching, maiming, destruction of wild animals, taking these animals or their parts from the natural environment, physical persons face fines from 60 to 300 euros, and legal persons – from 110 to 600 hundred euros.
Talking with the interlocutor Stanislava and other annual collectors, you understand that collecting snails, which brings profit to the family budget, is the field of activity of hardworking compatriots.
And it’s sad, because all interviewees ask not to publish their names and faces in photos, they don’t want to be publicly seen and discussed in society.
Something is wrong in our democratic environment, if hard-working people are ashamed to declare difficult physical work, are afraid of additional troubles from bureaucrats in institutions.
2024-04-18 02:04:54