The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...

[DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] That rodent is called a Nutria, which some refer to as a “water rat.” The large, semi-aquatic rodents are considered an invasive species.

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

Q. What are nutria, and why are they now considered a pest? Nutria (or coypu) are like gophers on steroids. Since they live near water, they are often mistaken for beavers or muskrats. There are some ...

Crews in Southern Mississippi Tuesday were removing thousands of dead nutria – rat-like rodents originally from South America – which drowned and washed up on the beaches in the aftermath of Hurricane ...

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