LivewellSpecies
Alligator Gar
Alligator Gar carries consumption advisories on 16 waters across 2 states. Limits depend on the water and the fish's size — a bigger fish has had longer to accumulate contaminants, so it's usually the stricter one.
Contaminants found in alligator gar: Dioxins, Mercury, PCBs
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for alligator gar is For women who may become pregnant, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and children: do not eat due to elevated Mercury. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where alligator gar has advisories
Waters with alligator gar advisories
- Bayou Bartholomew from the Drew/Ashley County Line to the Arkansas/Louisiana State Line Arkansas
- Champagnolle Creek to include Little Champagnolle from Highway 4 to where it joins with the Ouachita River Arkansas
- Cutoff Creek from where the creek crosses Highway 35 in Drew County to where it joins with Bayou Bartholomew Arkansas
- Dorcheat Bayou Arkansas
- Felsenthal Wildlife Refuge including the Saline River up to Stillions Bridge Arkansas
- Grays Lake Arkansas
- Lake Columbia Arkansas
- Moro Bay Creek from Highway 160 to where it joins with the Ouachita River Arkansas
- Ouachita River from Camden to the north border of the Felsenthal Wildlife Refuge to include all associated ox-bow lakes, backwater and overflow lakes and barrow ditches Arkansas
- Saline River from Highway 79 in Cleveland County to Stillions Bridge in Bradley and Ashley Counties Arkansas
- B.A. Steinhagen Reservoir Texas
- Lake Livingston Texas
- Neches River Texas
- Sam Rayburn Reservoir Texas
- Trinity River (US 287 to US 90) Texas
- Village Creek Texas