I think great minds think alike.
I know a guy that does that. This is a big college town, therefor we have a lot of apartment complexes with dumpsters full of Pizza. This guy offers restaurants, apts, etc to trap the raccoons for free. He tells me that many black people here love to eat raccoons. He then tells me that he sells the raccoons to a fish market for $30 per. So say you have 10 traps, that could be up to $300 while you are asleep! Which isn't a stretch, there is lots of vermin at night.
I have been thinking of asking fish markets if they actually buy raccoons? Or is this guy full of it? If its true I may get a few traps and a cheap small truck, and start doing this myself!
And what about Gators? Ill leave them for a real Pro, like Val