They have already had some bounty hunts, but apparently the problem is that the snakes are hard to spot. One article I read (from February) said that in a month-long bounty hunt, only 50 snakes were caught. The total number is estimated at tens of thousands.
Of course, it doesn't sound like they were paying per pound. If they upped the price, maybe someone would come up with some better snake-locating technology.
Yep. They’ve got to make the bounty worth while.
Same with the Asian carp and the great lakes. They’ve got all these multi-billion dollar schemes from dams to nets, but if they dumped that money into bounties per pound of fish, and make it significant money per pound, then they get rid of the Asian carp.
And they’d provide (shovel) fish pole ready jobs. :>)