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All About Alligators |
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Harvesting
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Alligator
Harvest
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Wild
alligators have been harvested for a couple of hundred years.
Alligators were first harvested in Louisiana in great numbers in
the early 1800’s. These alligators were harvested for their skins,
which are used to make boots, shoes and saddles and for their oil
used to grease steam engines and cotton mills. The demand decrease
when the leather made from the skins was thought not to be
durable. In the mid 1800’s the demand for alligators skins
increase again. These skins were used to make shoes and saddles
for the Confederate troops during the Civil War. In the late
1800’s and early 1900’s commercial tanning processes began in New
York. New Jersey and Europe. This process made the alligators
skins soft and durable. Between 1962 and 1971 the alligator
hunting season was closed statewide due to low numbers. In 1972
the alligator season was opened only in Cameron Parish and lasted
13 days. Other parishes were gradually added until the season
became statewide in 1981. Louisiana now has a wild alligator
season that harvest 28,000 – 35,000 alligators annually during the
month of September. This season last approximately 30 days.
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