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re: Controlling wild hogs
Posted on 8/1/22 at 8:16 am to Cowboyfan89
Posted on 8/1/22 at 8:16 am to Cowboyfan89
It’s obvious you have put more thought into this than I do not doubt your grasp of the situation. I just figured having hunters go after them in a concerted effort would seriously deplete the numbers, and the only way to do that would be to reward them handsomely. Kinda like crawfishermen. I realize hogs reproduce far too rapidly to eliminate all of them. The gestation is too short and they start breeding too early.
I did not consider people wanting to conserve them for continuous income. I was thinking more of the greed and killing all they could. Even going out after work to see if they could knock off a few.
I did not consider people wanting to conserve them for continuous income. I was thinking more of the greed and killing all they could. Even going out after work to see if they could knock off a few.
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Posted on 8/1/22 at 9:27 am to 9rocket
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I did not consider people wanting to conserve them for continuous income.
Understandable since humans don’t have a great track record of doing this. Just look at our fisheries. Commercial fishermen were never going to self regulate so now we have government mandated limits.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 12:25 pm to 9rocket
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I just figured having hunters go after them in a concerted effort would seriously deplete the numbers
The irony of it is that this has happened with other species unintentionally (ducks, deer, turkeys), but would likely never work against hogs because of how differently those species breed.
It sounds like a great idea, but the same reason bounties haven't worked on nutria is the same reason it won't work on hogs--they just breed to damn much. Even with a bunch of people in the woods going after them, it likely wouldn't be enough to get the population under control. But, I could be wrong.
I can't say with certainty that a bounty would result in people purposely keeping them around, but people move the damn things around to sell hunts, so it's plausible that people would purposely leave hogs around just to let them reproduce and keep the bounties going.
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