Several years ago one of my cousins and a couple of his friends were making a living trapping wild pigs (feral pigs mind you) and selling them to packing plants. This just was keeping the pig population under control. Some idiot city bred congrassman decided that feral hogs were a wild resource and wrote tag for a wildlife conservation bill declaring them as such. Thats when the limits went into effect. Now it is illegal to sell the meat, however if they are destroying your land you can kill them and leave them (which is why we have a growing coyote problems) laying or eat them yourself.
Understand feral pigs are domesticated pigs that were let loose when the pork market bottomed out in the early '80s. One Texas parks and wildlife report estimate they are breeding and having liters at the rate of 30K a MONTH now that we can no longer trap and resell them.
Its idiocy and ranches who once could get them trapped for little to no cost are now having to pay professional hunters alot of money to waste meat that you cant even donate to hunters for the hungery.
GoodOlBoy
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