You have to own the land or have land owners written permission to possess an alligator tag from that land.
You can only possess a tagged hide from the land that the tag was given for.
If you are caught hunting gators from one land and the tag is for another, it
will cost you a lot more than you would have gotten for the hide.
When I hunted gators, they once gave 1 price per foot. Then they went to a
sliding scale. This much for 4 to 5 ft. So much for 5 to 6 ft. ect. and when it
got to 10 ft. and over, they gave you a lot more.
Back then, there were only 4 hide buyers. The rest of the buying houses worked
for them. The houses bought the whole gators under the buyers license, but skinned
the gator and kept the meat for their profit. The hides were sold to one of 4 buyers.
Meat used to go for $4.50 on the carcas and around $7.50 filleted and vacuumed
packed.
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