MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2014 A record number of alligators were harvested Thursday in Alabama’s West Central Alligator Management Area, with 23 alligators taken. <\/p>\n
The Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division said that among the alligators harvested was a massive specimen measuring 13 feet 7 inches and weighing 620 pounds.<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Python Challenge captures record-breaking 294 snakes, winner nets $10k for 60 catches<\/a> The division attributed the increase in harvested alligators to more tags being issued this year. <\/p>\n Hunters are reminded that alligator check stations for the Lake Eufaula, West Central, Southwest, and Coastal Alligator Management Areas will be open from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. during the hunting season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2014 A record number of alligators were harvested Thursday in Alabama’s West Central Alligator Management Area,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5183,6619,1868,59999,9831,3899,17164,79,201],"class_list":["post-87110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alabama","tag-alligator","tag-fisheries","tag-harvested","tag-hunting","tag-management","tag-record","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87110","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=87110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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