HUGE alligator gar taken with bow
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they are real good to eat i dont know why people think just cause its a big fish it dont taste good and ya its a fish keeping forum but its in the fishing section
All this negative comments ... in all honesty Great catch for brent. He didn't do anything wrong and he's eat the fish whats wrong with that. If he had just shot it and dumped it that would've been horrible but he didn't. Stop hating ppl.
Truely a shame, he could have kept one of the smaller males for food if he wanted to eat, instead he took the large female because of sport. Some people just have no respect for nature. good for him he caught a large fish and got food. Bad for the fact the biggest one caught in a long time was killed, im sure that helps out the breeding population...
Oh I have eaten fish that I caught..Trout for example. Now let me see if I have eaten one of the biggest specimens recorded of an ancient, endangered and beautiful species.. Quite surprisingly, no.
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Quite a bit of pot calling the kettle black on this thread.
For those of you with alligator gar, do you plan on breeding your fish? If so, do you plan on releasing the offspring into the native habitat? If the answer is no to either question then you are no better than he is, probably worse. Where do you think the original alligator gar stock came from?
Some of you are complaining that the guy shot a large gar and ate it while you sit and watch your fish swim around until it dies. Here I'll make some assumptions based on what I've seen on this forum, If the pet gar do have offspring, chances are they will be sold for aquarium use only, so the owner can make money. Our bowfisherman on the other hand pays for a yearly permit to legally harvest these fish. That money then goes through the state and back into conservation of the species as a whole. In the end, the fisherman is doing more good for the species than the pet owner who ridicules him for killing one fish.
I'll also mention that it probably does help the breeding population. With that giant one no longer on the prowl, many smaller females will be able to get the nutrition to have a more successful spawn. A similar strategy to this has been used before on large animals. As animals get older they produce less offspring per capita while also using more resources. The smaller females may not have the shear bulk number of eggs each but now the smaller ones can produce at their maximum, which means more eggs will be laid.
For those of you with alligator gar, do you plan on breeding your fish? If so, do you plan on releasing the offspring into the native habitat? If the answer is no to either question then you are no better than he is, probably worse. Where do you think the original alligator gar stock came from?
Some of you are complaining that the guy shot a large gar and ate it while you sit and watch your fish swim around until it dies. Here I'll make some assumptions based on what I've seen on this forum, If the pet gar do have offspring, chances are they will be sold for aquarium use only, so the owner can make money. Our bowfisherman on the other hand pays for a yearly permit to legally harvest these fish. That money then goes through the state and back into conservation of the species as a whole. In the end, the fisherman is doing more good for the species than the pet owner who ridicules him for killing one fish.
I'll also mention that it probably does help the breeding population. With that giant one no longer on the prowl, many smaller females will be able to get the nutrition to have a more successful spawn. A similar strategy to this has been used before on large animals. As animals get older they produce less offspring per capita while also using more resources. The smaller females may not have the shear bulk number of eggs each but now the smaller ones can produce at their maximum, which means more eggs will be laid.
It's a shame he thought it was necesary to kill the largest one he could find but atleast it wasn't wasted. It's the people who kill them because they are a "trash fish" that are the real problem. Also any gator gar you see in a tank will be farm raised so it has no affect on wild populations.
