Posted on 07/29/2016 7:24:26 AM PDT by C19fan
It's a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to Illinois until it disappeared from many states a half-century ago.
Persecuted by anglers and deprived of places to spawn, the alligator gar — with a head that resembles an alligator and two rows of needlelike teeth — survived primarily in southern states in the tributaries of Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico after being declared extinct in several states farther north. To many, it was a freak, a "trash fish" that threatened sportfish, something to be exterminated.
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Ignorance.
Imagine the resurgence they could have feeding on the Asians. I wonder if they could institute a captive breeding program to speed up the return to natural balance and hopefully eradication of the asians.
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Aren’t they being racist against the migrant refugee Asian carp fish?
The gar lives well here in the Lake of the Ozarks. My father in law snagged one and had it mounted some years ago. It has taken up residence on our game room wall.
RE “...once-hated fish now seen as weapon against Asian carp ...”
There’s a reason for all critters being here, evidently...
Lot’s of them in Kansas back in the 50’s. They may still be there, but I am not.
Gar meat is edible, but is extremely bony and rarely consumed. Gar eggs are highly toxic to humans.
Years ago I heard a radio guy in Fl talk about how to cook a Gar.
He said place it on a soaked board,plaster it with salt pepper garlic onions and bake at 450 for 3 hours.
Take it out scrape it off the board and eat the board as it will be better than the gar would ever be.
Or something like that??
Ouch !
They should have democrat strategist dog ugly lesbian Sally Kohn dive in and scare the carp away.
So we should use them to take out the invasive species, then once that goal is accomplished, keep them regulated and controlled.
Like any other species.
Back in the 1950s fishing for Alligator gar on the White River in Arkansas was a great sport till they cleaned them out. Don’t know if they still are there or not.
meanwhile, there are still plenty of regular gar throughout the Midwest and Southwest. Saw lots of them along the Pecos years ago, and they were everywhere below Keystone Dam at Tulsa in the Arkansas River.
Never bring an Asian Carp to an Alligator Gar fight.
The video says exactly that. Breeding sized gar are caught and spawned and the fry are released into lakes and rivers when they are large enough.
Went canoeing once on a river in So. Missouri that was just full of those monsters. Some were nearly as big as the canoe I was in. The girl with me just screamed the whole time.
“Persecuted by anglers and deprived of places to spawn, the alligator gar — with a head that resembles an alligator and two rows of needlelike teeth — survived primarily in southern states in the tributaries of Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico after “
A country Gar can survive.
Caught a foot-long gar at the Blanchard River dam in Findlay OH many moons back. Toothy!
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