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FILE - An alligator swims in the Maurepas Swamp, thirty miles outside New Orleans, in Ruddock, La., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Once-endangered alligators are thriving in the wild, so Louisiana authorities are proposing another cut in the percentage that farmers must return to marshes where their eggs were laid. The big armored reptiles don't breed well in captivity, so farmers are allowed to collect eggs from wild nests, as long as they return a percentage as youngsters too big for most other animals to eat. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)

Louisiana gators thrive, so farmers’ return quota may drop

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

In this Oct. 3, 2018, photo, an alligator floats at dusk in the Davis Pond Diversion in Luling, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

Louisiana sees first fatal alligator attack as reptile population grows

By James Varney - The Washington Times