Bounty offer returns as Louisiana alligator season opens

03/09/2013
The carefully controlled alligator hunting season in the US state of Louisiana has opened for 2013. For the first time since 2007, hunters have a chance to earn extra money because of a special bounty prize that a tanner has decided to offer again.

America Tanning and Leather, based in Georgia, has offered a bounty of $10,000 to the hunter who offers the longest alligator of the month-long season. The tannery last offered a bounty, for $5,000, in 2007.