Permanent
Opening Date for Alligator Season Set
Posted:
8/6/04
The Louisiana Wildlife
and Fisheries Commission voted unanimously to set the opening
date for alligator season as the first Wednesday of September.
The season is to remain open for 30 days thereafter. In 2004,
opening day will September 1.
According to Noel
Kinler, program manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries, "Historical and current information collected
by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries indicate that
the optimum time frame for the harvest of alligators is the
month of September."
EDITORS: For more
information, contact Thomas Gresham at 225-765-2923 or tgesham@wlf.louisiana.gov.
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