Human Uses
Alligators are raised commercially for their meat and skin, which is used for bags and shoes. They also provide economic benefits to humans through the ecotourism industry, since many visitors enjoy swamp tours, in which alligators are highly valued. Their most important economic benefit to humans may be the control of nutria and muskrats. Louisiana spends millions of dollars of bounty money to control nutria; this service is provided free by alligators. The protection of coastal wetlands has many other economic benefits to Louisiana.
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