Baronvonrort wrote on Feb 25
th, 2017 at 10:44pm:
freediver wrote on Feb 25
th, 2017 at 9:56am:
I think it is a great proposal. We miss far too many opportunities for hunters to support conservation efforts. It is ridiculous that we have to pay people large sums of money to live trap problem crocodiles who end up getting sent to a croc "farm" anyway. We have a strong market for crocodile skins and meat, as well as the right to shoot them.
The reason the croc farms oppose this (often in a very politically active way), is that they profit from this inefficiency, raising crocs in overcrowded, stressful conditions. We are doing to crocs the same thing we have done to pigs and chickens, and to a growing extent, cows. We let the factory farmers tell us that wild, free range meat is unhealthy, inhumane and bad for the environment, and the more idiotic people (from both sides of the political spectrum) lap it up.
We could have people paying to shoot crocs which would contribute to the economy instead of using taxpayers money to pay rangers from the Dept of Environment and Heritage to trap them.
frasercoastchronicle.com.au/videos/rangers-rebait-crocodile-traps/18130Crocodile meat is low in fat and high in protein.
Protein (g/100g)
Chicken breast 20.2g
Crocodile 21.1
Sirloin 19.3
Fat (g/100g)
Chicken breast 10.2
Crocodile 1.9
Sirloin 16
australiancrocodile.com.au/Meats It maybe low in fat & high in protein but it's bland & often tough ...
like tripe the only thing that makes it edible is a good sauce.
Crocodiles have made a resurgence along the whole east coast of QLD to be in visible numbers right down to the Sandy Straits between Fraser Island and the mainland & up the Mary River to the town reaches of Maryborough & further upstream & every possibility over the barrage & into the fresh water beyond.
Won't it be good when they are down in the Noosa River & other Sunshine Coat river systems.........
then onto Moreton Bay & south to the Gold Coast?
The vast man made canals & lakes on the Gold Coast have already become a vast home for Bull Sharks who numbers have increased dramatically with this environment.
Come to QLD ...... don't bother packing your swimming togs.