Python Season Was A Bust

[Zappa]

http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/story.aspx?storyid=129967&catid=250

Florida's python hunting season ending with no snakes killed or captured

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) -- Florida's first python hunting season ends Saturday with no reptiles being reported captured and killed.

The season opened March 8 for anyone with a hunting license who paid a $26 permit fee to hunt down the nonnative reptiles on state-managed lands around the Everglades in South Florida.

In addition to Burmese pythons, hunters also were allowed to kill Indian and African rock pythons, and green anacondas and Nile monitor lizards.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says no snakes were caught. FWC officials say the state's unseasonably cold winter weather is believed to have killed up to 50 percent of the pythons. The public hunt will resume in the fall.

Officials believe there could be tens of thousands of pythons around the Everglades.

I wonder how many people actually spent the $26 for the reptile license?

 

[jkeeley1]

My guess would be that nobody payed the fee and just killed them anyways like they have probably been doing for years

 

[Titan]

I wonder...do they have to wear blaze orange when hunting python?

 

[Keystone]

I wonder if anyone hunts Pythons WITH a Python.

I don't understand the need for a "season" for this - they are a massively invasive, non-native species that are doing a huge amount of damage to the ecosystem there, and spreading quickly. I say kill all of them, all the time. If the state wants a nominal $26/yr for a tag, whatever. Are they concerned about overhunting?? It's not like killing all of them would have a negative effect.

 

[Titan]

I wonder if anyone hunts Pythons WITH a Python.

I don't understand the need for a "season" for this - they are a massively invasive, non-native species that are doing a huge amount of damage to the ecosystem there, and spreading quickly. I say kill all of them, all the time. If the state wants a nominal $26/yr for a tag, whatever. Are they concerned about overhunting?? It's not like killing all of them would have a negative effect.

I agree about the nonsense of a 'season'.

What's the point, to cull the 'herd'? I would have thought the objective was total elimination as quickly as possible.

 

[derrick_lui]

I wonder if anyone hunts Pythons WITH a Python.

I don't understand the need for a "season" for this - they are a massively invasive, non-native species that are doing a huge amount of damage to the ecosystem there, and spreading quickly. I say kill all of them, all the time. If the state wants a nominal $26/yr for a tag, whatever. Are they concerned about overhunting?? It's not like killing all of them would have a negative effect.

They are probably concerned with not getting piece of the cake (fees!).

 

[FiremanBob]

Exactly, Keystone. They are the worst kind of vermin and should be exterminated at every opportunity.

 

[JackDaniels]

I wouldn't go anywhere near them damn things. I'm terrified of snakes. Thats why I don't fly on planes anymore.

 

[Keystone]

I wouldn't go anywhere near them damn things. I'm terrified of snakes. Thats why I don't fly on planes anymore.

Nothing to ease your fears like blasting them with 00 buck!

Also, not even Samual M F'ing Jackson could save that movie...

 

[Zappa]

They Did A Bit Better This Year

Adult deer found inside python in Everglades

An adult deer was found intact inside a huge Burmese python Thursday, after the snake was captured and killed in the Everglades.

Contractors for the South Florida Water Management District encountered the python on a tree island in western Miami-Dade County, according to the district. It was killed with a shotgun blast.

The 15.7-foot snake had a massive bulge from a recently consumed 76-pound female deer, the largest intact prey ever found in a Burmese python in Florida,

Full Story >>> http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/adult-deer-found-inside-python-in-everglades-1939553.html

 

[Rob Boudrie]

http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/story.aspx?storyid=129967&catid=250



I wonder how many people actually spent the $26 for the reptile license?

Talk about Tom Sawyer moments. Pythons in the Everglades are considered pests to be eradicated, not a valuable wildlife resource to be protected from overhunting.

 

[antdfsc]

Seems like they should be paying people to kill these invasive species, not charging them. On the other hand, it is Florida...

 

[PaulD]

I wonder if anyone hunts Pythons WITH a Python.

 

[dhuze]

Seems like they should be paying people to kill these invasive species, not charging them. On the other hand, it is Florida...

They do the same thing with hogs in most states.

 

[Nana the Great]

Insanity!

There should be open season, with no permit, for both feral hogs and non-native snakes.

 

[CRSIII]

That snake would make for some mighty fine boots! (watch out for the bromidrosis)

 

[FreeWillie]

That snake would make for some mighty fine boots! (watch out for the bromidrosis)

and belt and hat and vest and..... That was a good sized boy.