Spectacled caiman hunting

found: Work cat.: Thorbjarnarson, J.B. Venezuela's caiman harvest program, 1998:p. 1 (a spectacled caiman commercial management program was initiated in Venezuela in 1983; harvest of adult male caiman; caiman hunting; caiman harvesting)

found: Crocodilian species list, via WWW, Apr. 27, 2006:Caiman crocodilus (Hunting pressures remained relatively low, therefore, until populations of the sympatric crocodilian species became depleted in the 1950s, when hunting of C. crocodilus intensified. The numbers of caimans harvested since then has been huge, and they currently supply the vast majority of the hide market in America.)

found: Ojasti, J. Wildlife utilization in Latin America, 1996, via WWW, Apr. 27, 2006:3.3 Caimans (Hunting: Spectacled caiman are usually hunted at night from canoes, as the hunters can get much closer than in the daytime and can easily find the animals by their eyes which shine red in the torch beam. Rivero Blanco reports on the principal technique in the Venezuelan llanos: by day the animals are herded into a section of the lagoon where they can be easily captured. Animals of legal size are then harpooned, pulled ashore with ropes and finished off with clubs ... They are hunted with harpoons, rifles or shotguns ... Meat-baited hooks with a wire and wood floater are also used, and sometimes trawlnets or traps ... Commercial hunting for spectacled caiman skins began on an intensive scale in the 1950s.)