{"id":89198,"date":"2025-08-17T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89198\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:29:11","slug":"massive-620-pound-harvested-alligator-was-nearly-14-feet-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89198\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive 620-pound harvested alligator was nearly 14 feet long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WKRC) \u2014 A massive 620-pound alligator was harvested on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alabamawildlifeandfreshwaterfisheries\/posts\/pfbid0KeaR7Tnnzm5dkZBBiRqtsLLwu2r2DrZ71DCfkmyn41LdLETuGgnWZueYJht8hit3l\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alabamawildlifeandfreshwaterfisheries\/posts\/pfbid0KeaR7Tnnzm5dkZBBiRqtsLLwu2r2DrZ71DCfkmyn41LdLETuGgnWZueYJht8hit3l\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, <\/a>a record-breaking night unfolded as 23 alligators were harvested from the West Central Alligator Management Area near Montgomery, Alabama. <\/p>\n<p>The surge in numbers aligns with the increased issuance of hunting tags this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hunters were reminded that alligator check stations for the Lake Eufaula, West Central, Southwest, and Coastal Alligator Management Areas will operate from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. during the designated hunting dates.<\/p>\n<p>Among the impressive catches was the 620-pound alligator, which measured 13 feet 7 inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WKRC) \u2014 A massive 620-pound alligator was harvested on Thursday. According to the Alabama Wildlife and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5183,6619,1868,59999,9831,20479,61151,79,201],"class_list":["post-89198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alabama","tag-alligator","tag-fisheries","tag-harvested","tag-hunting","tag-montgomery","tag-record-breaking","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89198","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=89198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}