This may be a really dumb question; but here goes anyway.
I live in Illinois and have permits for my alligator snappers.
I know the permits say "endangered species" .
Are they really endangered , or do they just not want alligator snappers released into a water system where they don't belong?
Just wondered. I know they seem plentiful enough. I had heard the DNR just doesn't want them in systems where they don't belong. But if they are native to a state; what would be the problem? Just curious.
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Reason for endangered Alligator snappers
MikeST
Jun 23, 2003 08:53 AM
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Dewback
Jun 23, 2003 04:11 PM
They are endangered in Illinois since the waterways they inhabited have been changed so much. Its basically the same reason they are endangered or threatened anywhere else in the US.I used to live in IL and the way I remember the law it was illegal to take any herp out of the wild in order to sell it. I think that carried over to the snappers as well. I think they don't want people to breed them without being regulated. I don't really think it has anything to do with keeping them out of the water ways. Like you said, they are native to IL. They just want to make sure people aren't harvesting or selling them unlawfully.
