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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
The Dept. of Environmental Protection concerns itself with air and water pollution, not animals. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission oversees alligators, and issues the permits for trappers and hunters to harvest them.
However, I understand your point.
But the fact is that it is dangerous to allow alligators to coexist in close proximity to humans. At the least someone will lose a pet; at the worst someone will lose a child.
Using tax money to relocate nuisance alligators, rather than letting trappers harvest them in payment for their services would be very expensive. In 2011, the statewide nuisance alligator program received 14,275 nuisance alligator complaints resulting in the removal of 6,995 nuisance alligators. That's a lot of employment hours and fuel costs that taxpayers didn't have to pay for.
We have an overabundance of alligators in Florida.
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I live in Long Island and our taxes are very high and I can see why. There is no problem with alligators, but there are other issues in Long Island that has to be dealt with.
