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Frankie, does that mean a limit of 2 gators/hunter?

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Frankie, I just found out on an internet search, tourists are paying $1000/person to go on these alligator hunts. The taxidermists are making good money stuffing 'em to. SVMI should get in this business. LOL

Alligator Hunting Season Begins in Florida

Aug 15, 2006 1:05 pm US/Eastern
Season Ends November 1st

Gator Hunting Permits Sold Out
Each Permit Allows Two Alligator Kills

(CBS4/AP) WEST PALM BEACH Alligator hunting season opens Tuesday in Florida with more than two-thousand hunters able to participate and for the first time, the season is being extended.

The nearly eleven-week gator season runs until November 1. Florida made alligator hunting legal in 1988.

Back in June, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sold almost 45-hundred permits to about 21-hundred hunters in less than four hours.

Last year, the commission issued only about 2,800 of the 4,300 available permits because of an applicant shortage.

Officials say the increase in sales this year was likely due to the extended season and a regulation change that allowed hunters to purchase more than one permit.

Each permit allows for two alligator kills.

The commission says hunters killed just under 35-hundred alligators in the 2005 season.

Biologists estimate there are up to two million alligators in the state.