Or golfers, like the commercial with the octopus
. ALL foreign invasive animals/reptiles/fish/insects/birds should be ban and heavy fines imposed for possession. Smugglers and dealers in trade if caught should get minimum 15 years in prison minimum and fined 50.000 dollars. Plus if it can be traced back to them when death occurs life in prison.
There are enough damn native snakes that can kill we don't need foreign invasive species, but as usual, the governments at all levels full of carpetbagging politicians and away 20 years to late on anything. The only way now to some what control them open season bounty. You know like they did with the wolf and coyotes.
Another good example starlings and English sparrows wiping out native songs birds and woodpeckers around metropolitan areas.