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I live in florida and i was wondering if i need a license to sell american alligators, if so where can i get one and how?

Also can i get a license that allows me to catch them in the wild without getting fined or arrested for gator poaching?

no offence intended here mate mate but why on earth would you wanna catch a wild gator and take it out of its envirement put it through stress etc when theres so many for sale and adoption????...rescue centres are full of these animals...are you serious???or is this a wind up????would you really catch a wild one and keep it enclosed after it living free???if you are i am bemused by this...i dont know if thats what you guys do in usa...but if i seen anyone taking a golden eagle chick,falcon,red tail etc in scotland i would follow him take his car number and tell police.i am not a rat but i would rat someone for that,..its cruel and just sick..im away to get a coffee and try and get my head round this..

We'll they are pretty much a dime a dozen down here, on any given day ill see at least 5 babies most of the time 10. So i just wondering.

You clearly haven't researched this to find out how misguided you are. Florida has the strictest laws in the country. Check out your state fish and wildlife laws. There are three kinds of permits to choose from and collecting from the wild isn't in any of them.
crocodil

i wouldn't say that they have the most strict laws on them. In New Jersey they don't even have a permit availabe for them

Passenger pigeons used to be a dime a dozen, too. More so - they used to fly in flocks of hundreds of thousands, the population was many million just several decades ago.

After all, pigeons will always be incredibly abundant, no?

As you know, they passenger pigeons are extinct now.

Renee

where I knew your name from - the anaconda project in Venzuala. In 1993 (or 94) a friend and I were all set to join you down there to assist (read "labor" via mutual friendship with Pete Strimple and a fellow from the NY Zoological Society (his name escapes me). Anyway, we had our shots, our travel arrangements and people all set to cover for us back home - 10 days from departure. Then the phone call came that we had been bumped last minute by some students from the university down there. Man, I gotta tell you - it was like taking a punch flush in the mouth! I can't tell you how disappointed we were. We understood the politics and all but it still stung.

Anyhow, I'm glad to have your expertise on this forum.

Bill