What to do if you catch a Burmese python in Florida? If you catch a Burmese python in Florida, you must humanely kill the snake where it was captured. Transporting live pythons is not permitted.

This year’s Python Challenge drew 1,035 hunters and netted 209 pythons. The winner caught 20 snakes and received $10,000; Ms. Siewe won a prize for catching a python that measured 10 feet, 9 inches.