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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1 – Screening out just the invasive species with your traps is sometimes difficult. How do you kill just invasive carp and not native fish?
2 – Who pays for this effort? These animals generally don’t have any particular economic value as food, so you need to pay a large team of hunters to try and wipe them out. This can be a very large scale effort if the species has become endemic over a large area.
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