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Wanted dead, not alive: the lionfish. You can make $5,000 if you get rid of them
How sick of the lionfish is the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission?
Enough so to offer you up to $5,000 to catch the nasty critters and get them out of Florida waters.
The FWC's Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Challenge, running through Labor Day on Sept. 3, calls on both recreational and commercial fishermen and women to harvest lionfish and submit photos of the first 25 lionfish.
After the first 25, you have to submit tails for the chance to collect the top prize.
[...] Over the last five years, some dozen South Florida restaurants began serving lionfish on their menus because the delicate, flaky fish, often compared to hogfish and snapper, is a taste treat.
(Score: 2) by terrab0t on Friday June 22 2018, @01:03PM (3 children)
People cheating the entry system won’t matter much because the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are already running their own psychological scam; and it’s a common one.
Instead of paying people to catch these fish, they are dangling an attractive prize in front of every amateur fisherman in Florida. Those fishermen may have a one in a million chance of getting that prize, but most of them will only think about how great it would be to get their hands on $5000.00 and they’ll be motivated to catch some lionfish.
I’m sure they know many people will cheat the entry system, but they’re already cheating by fooling people into doing work for only a small chance of payment.
It’s the contest scam. It’s very common, and it works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @02:34PM
A scam involves deception. I don't think the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is lying about existence of the prizes, or the rules of the contest, or anything relevant?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @02:55PM
exactly what i was thinking. industry that will be devastated by lionfish need to get together (i guess they could involve the park pigs if they must) and pay for a year round program to reimburse people a reasonable amount of money for every lionfish carcass/tail whatever that they bring in to a participating fish counter. instead we get this stupid bullshit.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by krishnoid on Friday June 22 2018, @10:06PM
It seems like a really bad idea [wikipedia.org] for amateurs to be handling these. But then again, Florida.