Super pigs coming to USA from Canada can they be stopped?

[Phantom]

 

[Lawdwaz]

Another Phantom beauty…..

[mowin]

I want to know what makes them so super?  Do we need kriptonite bullets? 

[lucky118]

Fun to shoot. Small females are rather tasty. Males not so much.

[2BuckBizCT]

Didn’t they say this years ago? In fact, I thought the NY DEC regs even listed them one year as unprotected and encouraged you to shoot them. 

[crappyice]

Didn't they settle is WNY...especially where it snows a lot?

[Phantom]

1 hour ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

Didn’t they say this years ago? In fact, I thought the NY DEC regs even listed them one year as unprotected and encouraged you to shoot them. 

guess they're like the people who keep coming over our border; they keep trying and trying. This is a new wave, I guess. 

[2BuckBizCT]

1 hour ago, crappyice said:

Didn't they settle is WNY...especially where it snows a lot?

That’s the elusive buffalo snow pig. Core habitat is UB campus ages 18-21

[Robhuntandfish]

58 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Wild pigs were released in America 68 years before the first settlers came, they've been here longer than we have.  Why are we suddenly hearing so much about them now?  They are nothing new.  Is it the media just looking for a good story?  

It's clickbait just like all the stories about sunspots or another COVID etc.   There was one out last summer about Oneida lake being unsafe.  It was written from a person in Zimbabwe that referred to a study from somewhere in 1994.  

[G-man]

They keep expanding their range is all like opossums.. weren't here when I was a kid now see em all the time.

[lucky118]

Side note, can't  stand her voice. So annoying so I didn't watch it lol.

[DoubleDose]

11 hours ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

Didn’t they say this years ago? In fact, I thought the NY DEC regs even listed them one year as unprotected and encouraged you to shoot them. 

 

1 hour ago, Rusty said:

Wild pigs were released in America 68 years before the first settlers came, they've been here longer than we have.  Why are we suddenly hearing so much about them now?  They are nothing new.  Is it the media just looking for a good story?  

Correct!  They are a highly destructive invasive species; that can take over.  They destroy the flora, that native species need, and eat small animals and eggs.  IMO, NYS DEC initially had "open season" for the above environmental reasons, but then protected them to establish them as another potential future revenue generator.

[Robhuntandfish]

2 minutes ago, DoubleDose said:

 

Correct!  They are a highly destructive invasive species; that can take over.  They destroy the flora, that native species need, and eat small animals and eggs.  IMO, NYS DEC initially had "open season" for the above environmental reasons, but then protected them to establish them as another potential future revenue generator.

They restricted hunting them not for future revenue but to stop people from looking at them as another hunting option. They didn't want people to start releasing them to get a huntable population.  

[Phantom]

4 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

They restricted hunting them not for future revenue but to stop people from looking at them as another hunting option. They didn't want people to start releasing them to get a huntable population.  

I wonder if thats what they did in Canada didn't seem to work. They breed like crazy so not hunting them would make it worse I think . One adult Pig can have potentially 24 Offspring in a year or more maybe they breed every 6 months.

Edited December 3, 2023 by Phantom

[DoubleDose]

1 minute ago, Robhuntandfish said:

They restricted hunting them not for future revenue but to stop people from looking at them as another hunting option. They didn't want people to start releasing them to get a huntable population.  

This actually doesn't make sense but that would be par for the course with NYS.  If you do not want them, then you make it illegal to have them, release them, etc. and legal to kill them 24/7 by all means (like most states trying to eradicate them).