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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The very traits that make a species invasive are the ones that make intentionally eradicating them difficult. They tend to be adaptable, resilient generalists. And every invasive species is a native species somewhere, so driving them to extinction would be counter productive.
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