{"id":178787,"date":"2025-09-24T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:19:08","slug":"162-alligators-harvested-in-opening-weekend-of-arkansas-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178787\/","title":{"rendered":"162 alligators harvested in opening weekend of Arkansas season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nRain from a passing cool front didn\u2019t slow Arkansas alligator hunters, who harvested 162 alligators during the opening weekend of the 2025 season, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The second and final weekend of the season runs from 30 minutes after sunset Sept. 26 through 30 minutes before sunrise Sept. 29 across all public and private hunting zones.<\/p>\n<p>Hunters on private land and those with Millwood Lake permits are urged to check the hotline at 833-345-0398 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agfc.com\/alligator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agfc.com\/alligator<\/a> nightly before heading out to ensure quotas remain open, AGFC herpetologist Amanda Bryant said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wireready_09-24-2025-09-36-04_03366_alligator0923252.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"wire-ready-image\"\/><br \/>The largest gators reported so far measured 13 feet, 1 inch on private land and 13 feet on public land in Zone 3. The state record stands at 13 feet, 11\u00bd inches, set in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant also thanked hunters who submitted tissue samples for an ongoing diet study. Enough samples were collected during the first weekend, so no further submissions are needed.<\/p>\n<p>More details about alligator hunting in Arkansas are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agfc.com\/alligator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agfc.com\/alligator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WebReadyTM Powered by WireReady\u00ae\u00a0NSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rain from a passing cool front didn\u2019t slow Arkansas alligator hunters, who harvested 162 alligators during the opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-178787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}