{"id":202859,"date":"2021-03-15T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/inside-floridas-lucrative-feral-hog-hunting-industry\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:02:18","slug":"inside-floridas-lucrative-feral-hog-hunting-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-floridas-lucrative-feral-hog-hunting-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"#Inside Florida\u2019s lucrative feral hog hunting industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Inside Florida\u2019s lucrative feral hog hunting industry<\/strong>”
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The most invasive species in the US has created an industry of semi-legal poachers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an outlaw,\u201d Dimas \u201cPompi\u201d Rodriguez told the Guardian<\/a> of working as one of Florida\u2019s feral hog poachers, a line of work which authorities and homeowners turn a blind eye to due to the animals\u2019 massively destructive existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though the topic became a laughing stock in 2019 after a viral tweet about assault weapons, the hogs have actually become America\u2019s biggest wildlife challenge. <\/p>\n

After pigs escaped from a Spanish explorer near Tampa in 1539, the animals grew into a 9 million strong population present in 39 states. The pests cause what the US Department of Agriculture estimates to be more than $2.5 billion in property damage annually, the Guardian reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The beasts are known to wreak havoc on farms, individuals and their pets to such a degree that Florida has declared open season on them year round \u2014 and some people have made a lifestyle out of helping cull their numbers. <\/p>\n

Others have started ventures offering aspiring hunters the opportunity to target the creatures.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor as little as $1,000 (and as much as $12,000, with add-ons like lodging and unlimited ammo) a hunter or wannabe hunter can book a helicopter ride for the purpose of gunning down wild pigs, typically with an assault rifle,\u201d Sports Illustrated reported<\/a> in 2020. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe customer wants to go hunting; we want to go eradicating,\u201d Barrett Blume, the owner of one such business, told the publication. <\/p>\n

However, critics say the industry\u2019s existence has ironically helped do the opposite. The hogs make for such popular and valuable game<\/a>, they\u2019re often housed on public and private ranches, but when they escape \u2014 which is often \u2014 or are purposefully released, they breed and increase the size of local populations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hog thing is complicated,\u201d groundskeeper Corey Woosely, who shoots hogs on the property he helps maintain, told the publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve probably trapp<\/a>ed close to 10,000 hogs,\u201d said Pompi, who sells his live hog catches to Florida hunting outfits. \u201cThey\u2019ll call me and say they need 20 hogs in two days, and I run all over the state to catch them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the day, Pompi works on his pickup truck at a shop and hangs with his hunting buddies. At night, he hunts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fix everything ourselves around here,\u201d he said. \u201cGotta keep the trucks running good so we can be out hunting every night.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2019, the currently under-fire<\/a> podcast \u201cReply All\u201d did a deep dive into America\u2019s feral hog problem in a wildly popular episode<\/a>.\n <\/div>\n

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