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Article: Alligator gar? `This is good eating'.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2007
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Byline: Tim Jones
TRIUMPH, La. _ This is no ordinary fish tale, no beer-soaked, back-porch bloviation about the whopper that keeps getting bigger with each telling.
This is a story of ever-so-modest renewal in a land of destruction, and it involves one of the oldest and perhaps the plug-ugliest freshwater fish in North America: the alligator gar, which is legitimately one whopper of a fish.
Our story takes place in the bottom reaches of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, where the marshy land escorts the Mississippi River southeast into the Gulf of Mexico. For centuries the parish has provided livelihoods for fishermen who launched their boats and ...