Officials in Illinois have announced that they are planning to reintroduce a fish, to swim in the state’s waters, which many though was extinct.  On Monday, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced their plan to put together a management plan for the alligator gar.  Last fall, officials in Illinois stocked its waters with nearly 1,600 alligator gars.  Biologists are restocking several other states with this fish, in hopes of bringing down the numbers of the Asian carp.  The fish is recorded as the 2^nd largest fish in North America, which is just smaller than the white sturgeon.  In the same news release, officials report that the last known successful catch of this fish was in 1966 at the Cache River in southern Illinois.  That alligator gar weighed in at 130 pounds and was 7-feet long.