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WLTC (Columbia, S Carolina) 26 December 06 Alligator Hunting Season? If Lawmakers Get Their Way...
Charleston: Concerns about the state's growing alligator population have some calling for an alligator hunting season.
State Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell of Charleston says that is needed as alligators become more of a nuisance. For instance a woman recently reported seeing a 12-foot alligator near
swimming children.
Alligators were once an endangered species and their population bottomed out in the 1970s. But legislators say the species has rebounded.
State Senator Chip Campsen of the Isle of Palms says he has seen rice field with so many alligators that he could almost walk on them.
And state Representative Chip Limehouse says it is nerve wracking to try to fish when hundreds of alligators are coming at you.
The state Department of Natural Resources is proposing a limited hunting season that could curb increasing nuisance alligator complaints. The state gets about five hundred a year.
Georgia, Florida and Louisiana all have alligator hunting seasons.
Alligator Hunting Season?

Texas also has a season that started in 1988. At one time 80 counties were loged as having gators now the state lists 105 counties with a population. Out of that 14 counties allow hunting yet it is very difficult to obtain a captive permit.