{"id":152412,"date":"2025-08-17T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:01:09","slug":"massive-620-pound-harvested-alligator-was-nearly-14-feet-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152412\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive 620-pound harvested alligator was nearly 14 feet long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WKRC) \u2014 A massive 620-pound alligator was harvested on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alabamawildlifeandfreshwaterfisheries\/posts\/pfbid0KeaR7Tnnzm5dkZBBiRqtsLLwu2r2DrZ71DCfkmyn41LdLETuGgnWZueYJht8hit3l\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alabamawildlifeandfreshwaterfisheries\/posts\/pfbid0KeaR7Tnnzm5dkZBBiRqtsLLwu2r2DrZ71DCfkmyn41LdLETuGgnWZueYJht8hit3l\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, <\/a>a record-breaking night unfolded as 23 alligators were harvested from the West Central Alligator Management Area near Montgomery, Alabama. <\/p>\n<p>The surge in numbers aligns with the increased issuance of hunting tags this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hunters were reminded that alligator check stations for the Lake Eufaula, West Central, Southwest, and Coastal Alligator Management Areas will operate from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. during the designated hunting dates.<\/p>\n<p>Among the impressive catches was the 620-pound alligator, which measured 13 feet 7 inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WKRC) \u2014 A massive 620-pound alligator was harvested on Thursday. According to the Alabama Wildlife and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12955,14879,89281,89280,46491,26979,89282,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-152412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-alligator","10":"tag-fisheries","11":"tag-harvested","12":"tag-hunting","13":"tag-montgomery","14":"tag-record-breaking","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}