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“That sucks to heaven.” Solothurn’s standing paddler Christoph Wigger uses clear words. Against the stand up paddle ban, which the canton announced this week. It is applied within two protective guards of the Aare (sections Lüsslingen-Solothurn; Feldbrunnen-Flumenthal).
The closure, which the responsible office says is necessary to protect local birds such as the grebe, has already drawn several critical comments. Wigger sums up some of them from a paddler’s point of view: There is absolutely no legal basis, and it must be very strange that the canton is now banning SUPS; but not for rowboats.
I wanted to draw attention to these “contradictions”. As commentators on social networks or letters to the editor of this newspaper, the paddler also talks about “lobbying” and the fact that the canton is only now reporting on the ban because it wants to vote for the hunting law, which will be voted on on 27 September. .
Not as energetic as the paddler, but Christoph Burgherr, camp manager for TCS Camping in Solothurn, is also critical. Burgherr has been renting SUPS on the Aare for years, TCS Camping has a popular entry point and recently even an entry jetty, also for paddlers. “We could live with that if the ban only lasted for a few months, in winter,” says Burgherr, but the ban applies year-round. The goal now is to constructively find solutions, says Burgherr, putting emotions aside with this very emotional topic. (nka)
