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[ 2009-12-17 13:34:00 | By: bcde915 ] |
'It's been tough'
Louisianians have been hunting gucci belt wholesalealligators in the coastal bayous for generations. In 1972, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries launched a program that allowed farmers to buy eggs from coastal landowners and harvest the animals in farms, said Noel Kinler, who oversees the alligator program for the department.
Wayne Sagrera opened the Vermilion Gator Farm in 1984. The son of a muskrat trapper and alligator hunter, Wayne Sagrera started the farm with 255 alligator eggs and soon timberland boots wholesalegrew it into a multimillion-dollar operation.
As the U.S. economy began its nosedive last fall, orders from a tannery in Singapore dried up, Sagrera said. At its peak, the farm employed 40 workers, who do everything from skin the alligators to regulate the temperature in their pools.
By the end of the year, if the market doesn't improve, the farm will be run by only his four grown sons, Wayne Sagrera said.
Inside one of the long farm sheds, thousands of young alligators squirm in pools carefully kept between 82 degrees and 89 degrees, replicating a bayou marsh, Craig Sagrera a&f bikini wholesalesaid. Warmer water would make them grow faster, but it also makes them more aggressive, he said. In this market, he reasons, you can't afford bite marks on skins. That would lower their value.
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