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Updated: 11:44 AM Dec 3, 2009
Python Hunt Extended
The python round-up in South Florida will start once again in January.
Posted: 11:44 AM Dec 3, 2009
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The python round-up in South Florida will start once again in January.

After a four-month test run that ended in October, the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced they would extend the program to a year-round effort starting in 2010.

The wildlife commission says this will ensure that the exotic species does not spread any farther north in Florida.

The program aimed at helping eradicate giant, nonnative Burmese
pythons from South Florida ended with 39 of the invasive
constrictors being killed.

The agency is also now seeking application for permits that will
go into effect on January 1st.

Visit www.MyFWC.com for more details.

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Posted by: ccw Location: inyourface on Dec 3, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Open season yr around. sell for food . put a bounty on the snake's, they will be moving north just a matter of time.
Posted by: Willis Location: in the sticks on Dec 3, 2009 at 02:50 PM

You are supposed to be a qualified snake catcher(jeeeezzz)...and on top of that you have to purchase a $100.00 license from the state. These Yahoos at the FWC really know what it takes to eleminate these snakes....sorry but it `s not like this. Wake up FWC and eleminate all these restrictions.
Posted by: armand Location: dillow on Dec 3, 2009 at 02:14 PM

with 100,000 estimated to be on the loose, what good does 39 doin reducing the population? FWCC needs to have open seasonon these and consider paying a bounty out of everglades license plate funds. And,don't thinkthey will stay in the Everglades - any suitable habitat (and warm crawl space) support these snakes expanding throughout the southeast.
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