Give a bunch of Florida boys $100 per snake and there won’t be any in a month.
Instead, we bring in foreign workers.
It says right in the article that 1000 Florida snake hunters caught 106 snakes in one month, while these two guys caught 14 in two weeks. It seems like they really are highly skilled workers.
There was a bounty.
Just hunting the snakes Americans won’t hunt!....................
IIRC a congressman proposed using a similar method to get rid of the tree snakes infesting some Pacific islands. These snakes are much smaller and were easier to find, so it might have been a helpful idea. But I'm not sure that would work here because:
1. Who is going to send allow their kid to mess with a 16-foot constrictor snake that lives in a swamp?
2. Apparently these snakes are extremely hard to locate.
3. There already is a bounty on the snakes (less than $100) as well as a prize for catching the most snakes. These are attracting hunters but not anywhere near enough to solve the problem.