{"id":5384,"date":"2012-07-27T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2012-07-26T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T02:44:08","slug":"a-piranha-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-piranha-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"A Piranha Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072712_0235_APiranhaDis1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want China Times reported on a disastrous effort by a local government to deal with a Piranha menace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the local rivers of Guangxi Zhuang region, there has been an unexplained surge in piranhas.<\/li>\n<li>To allay fears the government offered US$160 for each piranha caught.<\/li>\n<li>This led to an influx of aspiring fisherman who did an excellent job of killing local marine life, but not so much at catching piranhas.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile businesses sprang up offering to sell imported piranhas for $1.80 per fish.<\/li>\n<li>The government eventually abandoned the effort. 0 piranhas were caught.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including some of the devastating tactics used by the fishermen, how this relates to Jaws, what the government tried to do to prevent this &#8216;arbitrage&#8217; and much more click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wantchinatimes.com\/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&amp;MainCatID=11&amp;id=20120714000011\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wantchinatimes.com\/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&amp;MainCatID=11&amp;id=20120714000011\">Want China Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/07\/china-piranha-arbitrage.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want China Times reported on a disastrous effort by a local government to deal with a Piranha menace: In the local rivers of Guangxi Zhuang region, there has been an unexplained surge in piranhas. To allay fears the government offered US$160 for each piranha caught. This led to an influx of aspiring fisherman who did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072712_0235_APiranhaDis1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5388,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}