$30? Gas, ammo, bait, expertise and insurance will cost $300 more per gator.
I'm a stay in Louisiana me.
Posted on 06/23/2021 3:40:51 AM PDT by Libloather
There's a gator problem in Disney World and it has nothing to do with Captain Hook. To clear Disney's properties of roaming reptiles, Florida's gator trappers are coming to the rescue, and are being paid $30 for every reptile they catch.
The zealous drive to rid Disney of wandering gators started after Lane Thomas Graves, 2, was attacked and killed by one of the creatures on a beach at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort in June 2016.
The Washington Post reported in 2017 that Disney World was crawling with gators even before the tragic incident, noting that more than 220 alligators were removed from its Orlando property in the ten years from May 2006 and August 2015.
Around 250 gators were removed from Disney properties over the last five years, per a report by the Orlando Sentinel.
The Sentinel spoke to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) spokeswoman Tammy Sapp, who said most of the Disney gators were euthanized. According to Disney's agreement with the trappers, they can keep the profits reaped from the gator leather and meat sold.
Other alligators are sent to farms, exhibits, and zoos, while gators under 4 feet are relocated, said Sapp.
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Will $30 be enough to pay for parking at Disney?
Thirty dollars?
Cheap barstids.
As a lifelong Floridan this job of ridding Gators from Disney will never end, Gators naturally seek out water and the males are territorial driving new males to seek out new places to live and inevitably some will end up at Disney
$30? Gas, ammo, bait, expertise and insurance will cost $300 more per gator.
I'm a stay in Louisiana me.
I agree 30 bucks is not gonna cover the cost of launching a boat for the day. Wheres the florida fish and wildlife management on taking gators in disney? Do they need a license and tags or is this poaching? or is it the disney magic of, disney parks are an allagator farm , we’re rasing them on private property and can harvest them when we want. I loved disney growing up, but then I grew up and now know the mouse is evil.
The trappers get to keep the gators and do whatever they want with them.........
That helps.
Disney can buy whoever they want. They have their own police force, fire dept and scores of lawyers. Tourism is the #1 source of revenue for FL and Disney is the #1 source of tourism.
Most gator hunters live quite a ways away. $30 would pay for fuel for a round trip. Can’t just kill the gators and leave them so they have to tow a trailer behind one truck and an air boat behind another etc. 2-4 man teams go out. It’s not like one guy in a small john boat can hunt gators. Disney needs to pay $200 minimum.
Cheapskates.
They can afford ten times that much any time and ought to for the effort involved.
Captain Hook’s nemesis was a crocodile not an alligator. Dipshit author.
“Cheapskates.
They can afford ten times that much any time and ought to for the effort involved.”
This is the same Disney that laid off American workers to replace them with cheap foreign workers.
Yes, Disney is cheap.
I heard Gators are good eatin!
"The current prices for alligators are $20 per foot for a 9-foot or longer gator, $17 for 8 feet, $13-$15 for 7 feet and $13-$14 for 6 feet, according to local hunters and processors. “The prices are about 30 percent down from last year,” Greenwood Gator Farms and Tours owner Tim Domangue said."
Disney: cheap m*f@rs.
Next they will announce a bounty on mosquitoes.
I would love to see gator hunting be heavily rewarded at this point. They have become a nuisance. Let’s make good old fashioned alligator belts, shoes, handbags, etc again, as well as cook ‘em up!! The ways things used to be, the way things ought to be.
Aren’t the alligators protected in the rest of Florida? Why does Disney get different treatment?
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