PhotoHunt 102 (1): armored fish

Can you imagine a fish 10 feet long and weighing 300 pounds? That would be a record length alligator gar you would have. This was one of the unique things we saw in New Orleans. Alligator gar fish. The Cajun’s call the alligator gar “Poisson arme” which means “Armored fish”. And it is. The scales of the alligator gar are made of bone and they overlap each other and are really tough. So tough that the native American tribes down in the South actually made their own bodies armors out of them, they would wear them on their chest to help stop knives and arrows.

Now you can also eat garfish, they are good to eat. But the problem is trying to cut through these scales. If you catch a large one and use a fillet knife, you would starve to death. They are really tough it literally takes a small axe or hatchet to chop your way through them.

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