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Funky fish: Gar garners protections from Minnesota lawmakers
DAVE ORRICK, St. Paul Pioneer Pres
July 11, 2021
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) One of Minnesota’s oddest, perhaps coolest, and definitely historically underappreciated fish the gar is about to get some love.
The ong, slender, toothy and prehistoric-looking fish will, for the first time ever in the state, be protected in ways similar to other gamefish, the result of a bit of an outcry on social media following a series of mass killings that some saw as wantonly wasteful. In a legislature divided starkly along partisan lines, Minnesota’s gar species found bipartisan support.
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