They can easily get up to eight feet long maybe even close to 10 feet historically, but we don’t have great records of that. As far as I know, it’s the largest even compared to fossil gars. The alligator gar is the largest gar species alive today. Ferrara and other researchers at Nicholls State University. In 2017, a job opportunity came up there and now I’m down here working on gar alongside Dr. And it was at this small university in southeastern Louisiana. Man, I mean seeing an alligator gar for the first time in the wild…that’s definitely imprinted on my memory. We were like, “W e need to see these alligator gars.” Sure enough, we got one that was just under five feet long. Another guy from Canada and I were like the northern gar guys down there. They said, “ We’re going to be sampling alligator gar.” And I was like, “ WHAT?!?” I quickly got on a computer, changed my flight, and made sure I could be part of that. Ferrara and her grad students said, “ Hey, we’re heading back to Thibodaux to do some field work…you interested in joining?” Fish and Wildlife Service and Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. I was excited to meet a bunch of people who were studying gar, including agency folks from the U.S. Allyse Ferrara had put together a symposium. I went to New Orleans for a conference about gar. I was a graduate student at the University of Michigan. Image Details Can you remember the first time you came across what you might consider a “mega” gar?ĭefinitely.
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