(Courtesy of the AGFC)
Arkansas hunters set a new record during the state’s two-weekend alligator season, harvesting 205 alligators before the season closed early Monday morning. The total narrowly surpassed 2023’s mark of 202.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) had set this year’s quota at 204, but the tally rose by one when multiple hunters harvested animals on the same night before the season could be closed.
(Courtesy of the AGFC)
Hunters on public land filled 26 of the 38 available tags, producing a 68 percent success rate compared with 58 percent in 2023. On Millwood Lake, seven alligators were checked, leaving two tags unfilled in the area’s first year as a quota hunt.
Private land hunts again produced the highest totals. Alligator Management Zone 3 in southeast Arkansas led the state with 106 checked alligators, while Zone 1 in southwest Arkansas accounted for 69. Zone 2 in south-central Arkansas, which has less alligator habitat and a smaller quota, produced four.
Zone 3 closed two days before the scheduled end of the hunt, Zone 1 closed with one night remaining, and Zone 2 was the only area open through the final night.
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