All this killing, for all these years and they still aren't close to being extinct. Such tragedy...

Hey, sure, let's annihilate a particular species until it's too late. Seen a dodo bird lately? How about passenger pigeon? Add the West African black rhino, the sea mink, the Caribbean monk seal, and the Tasmanian tiger to that list.

How many Gulf sturgeon do you see being caught along the gulf coast or east coast? Seen the thriving halibut fishery off the coast of Maine? Halibut used to be abundant there until they were fished to the brink of extinction. Ever heard of the Chinese paddlefish? You're not likely to since it appears to have been killed off. Try finding cutthroat trout in most of their native range from a mere 100 years ago. Sure, you can find them in some places, but not in the numbers and places they use to exist. Want to catch a giant tortuava in the Sea of Cortez? You better do it now while there's still a few left, surely since they still get caught, they're not close to being extinct.

The standard you propose is shortsighted and foolish, yet quite a few people have chimed in on this thread with similar thoughts (please understand I'm not singling you out - this is for everyone). Sure, let's systematically exterminate a huge fish everywhere we see it because we think it's ugly. And as long as there's still some around, then surely they're not in danger of extinction, right?

I wonder about the person who ate the last dodo bird - how did it taste?

We're fishermen. ALL of us - we're supposed to be concerned enough about our natural resources to CONSERVE them, so that we can keep on catching and enjoying fish of all kinds. More importantly, we should all want our children, grandchildren, and so on to have the same opportunities. Can't do that if we allow magnificent species to be wiped out.

Are they extinct yet? Can someone let me know when they are put on the endangered species list? Do gar spread zebra mussels, if yes, we def need to eradicate them.

NO they are not extinct in Texas or the US as a whole. If you read you will learn that they have been made extinct or very rare in a lot of States that they are native to.

Do you advocate continuing to kill them for nothing more than the "fun" of it until they gone here also?

I'd be willing to bet that the younger generation are the ones doing this killing in the first place.

There's been lots of discussion on Falcon gar, that's what led to the 5 a day limit. Maybe you guys need to figure out why they can breed and grow so fast there, then you can fix the issue where you live.