He said officers have met with representatives of the swamp tour boat companies in Jefferson Parish

LAFITTE, La. Authorities holiday inn sunspree jamaica have ordered swamp boat tour operators in the South Louisiana community of Jefferson Parish to stop feeding alligators after video of a tour guide doing so went viral, the sheriff s office said Thursday.
There is no Louisiana law prohibiting luring and feeding of alligators, but it s against local law in Jefferson Parish, where a tourist captured video of an Airboat Adventures tour guide swimming with and feeding two alligators. At one point the video captures the guide putting a marshmallow in his mouth and letting an alligator snatch it away.
He said officers have met with representatives of the swamp tour boat companies in Jefferson Parish and have instructed them to cease any feeding of alligators. Each business was provided a copy of the Jefferson Parish ordinance on this subject, he said.
Just recently, this information was brought to our attention. Prior to that, we had no formal complaint, nor, were we ever notified of any illegal activity involving the swamp tour boat companies, Fortunato said.
The video was shot by Stacy Hicks, a tourist from St. Helens, Oregon, who was visiting south Louisiana last month. In it, gasps can be heard by tourists on the boat as the guide, Lance LaCrosse, jumps in the water to feed chicken and marshmallows to two alligators.
When he jumped in I was a little scared, more for him than us though, Hicks said. I am surprised at the attention this video has gotten. I just thought that this was a thing that happens all the time on the tours.
Indiscriminate hunting once left American alligators nearly extinct, but they were removed from the endangered species holiday inn sunspree jamaica list in 1987. Alligators are still listed as threatened on the U.S. endangered species list.
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