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Louisiana alligators face wholesale slaughter claim
Cameron Louisiana Alan Ensminger chief of the refuge division for the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission warns a federal ban on export of domestic alligator hides could crash prices and trigger mass killings of alligators during a three week Southwest Louisiana hunt Hunters began registering catches and bids will follow after hides are examined Prices had ranged up to 21 dollars a foot for European buyers but the new law limited overseas markets driving rumors of prices as low as 6 to 7 dollars a foot The area hosts about 300000 alligators and nutria blamed for reducing the gator supply
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