What does that meanin the gaming industry today?
The game sector is represented by InterProchasse, which has 11 members, including the National Association of Game Producers, the Game Department of the National Association of Breeders, the French Poultry Association and the National Association of Hunters. In recent years, the industry has become significantly more professional for economic, technical and regulatory reasons. And the recent health crises have accelerated this professionalization, forcing the structures to reach a satisfactory level of economic competitiveness and an effective economic viability threshold in order to cope with the increase in technical levels and biosecurity that game farmers are facing become. The gaming industry has become significantly structured over the last 15 years. And this both in terms of professional organization and the further development of breeding practices to improve the quality of the game. This is how our industry became the European leader.
How does the gaming sector work? is it innovative?
As in any sector, we listen to both the expectations of society and those of our customers, who are the hunting actors in the world of hunting. Therefore, in order to respond to their implicit or explicit demands, we carry out scientific research programs to improve the adaptability and acclimatization ability of our game upon its return to the wild. The first study we conducted together with scientists dates back to 2008. It was called the ARC project (Alectoris Rufa Certified) and had a scope that went beyond our borders. The aim was to examine the quality of the strain of the red chukar partridge, an exogenous species, in relation to the level of pollution it caused when it was released into the wild in the 1980s. We began by assessing the genetic quality of red partridges in the wild and in breeding. We then worked with the Antagene laboratory on a protocol to create a new test that made it possible to determine the level of hybridization of the partridge. A revolutionary test validated in 2014 by an agreement between the National Union of Hunting Game Producers and the National Federation of Hunters.