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Article: GAR ARE RETURNING TO W. KENTUCKY
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2009
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Mention "gar" to most anglers and expect to hear a litany of
revulsion. Many hate the fish without fully understanding it has a
definite role in keeping ecosystems healthy. Around the Tri-Sate few
anglers creel gars for consumption although Native Americans
regularly ate them and used their scales for projectile points.
Usually they sought the alligator gar for their food and scale
sources, but they discarded poisonous gator gar eggs They used dried
gar jaws as combs and rasps, making the biggest gars very desirable.
In later years European settlers discovered gars were edible but gar
species eggs were toxic, so consumption decreased.
Gars are prehistoric fish whose fossil remains show ...