I understand this couldn’t always be the case, like trying to kill all Cane toads across the entirety of Australia would likely be a massive undertaking. But for say, Bull Carp in some of America’s rivers, localized just to where those rivers reach, I feel like it wouldn’t take anymore than a month and some semi-advanced technology to just aggressively fish them out of the waters? Especially given the purpose of this would be to over-hunt instead of eating them, so you could use methods like shooting them in the water instead of fishing them out carefully.
Human’s seem pretty good at over-hunting things unintentionally for sport, so why can’t we systemically over-hunt invasive species if it helps the environment?
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Sometimes nothing. Sometimes PETA. It all comes down to public opinion and how difficult of an undertaking it is. For example, it’s heavily encouraged to hunt wild boar in Hawaii. In suburban areas with a deer problem, extra permits for hunting deer are sold, and really only game and wildlife would care if you shot one in your back yard(though you may get the police called on you for firing a gun in city limits). Both of those things have in common is that it doesn’t cost the local government anything to allow people to hunt them. Beyond those efforts, it costs money and people hate seeing the bill, especially if it fails.
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