Nutria? These are invasive species you can catch and eat
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suggests hunting, cooking and eating invasive feral hogs, iguana, carp, Northern Snakehead and Nutria.
Keep an Invasive Species in Check: Eat a Big Rat-Like Rodent, U.S. Says
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Americans should hunt and cook nutrias, an invasive species found in marshy areas, to help curb their population.
Wildlife officials urge people to eat 'invasive' rodent infesting parts of the US
US wildlife officials have urged citizens to consider adding nutria to their diets in an attempt to control the population of the "invasive" species. Nutria are a large semi-aquatic rodent native to South America.
Would You Eat This Invasive Swamp Rodent to Protect the Environment?
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recently marked National Invasive Species Awareness Week with an interesting suggestion: to help protect the environment, bust out the grill. That's right, one way you can help combat invasive species encroaching on the bucolic environs of the United
US wildlife officials suggest eating nutria, the invasive rodent found in California wetlands
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Nutria were first introduced to the U.S. from South America by fur traders in the 1889, and subsequently found in the state in the 1940s and ‘50s, though they were thought to be eradicated in the 1970s.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service suggests you hunt, eat these invasive species
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species -- eat them. Here's what Nutria, iguana and Northern Snakehead tastes like.
Fish and Wildlife: This Rodent Is 'Invasive and Delicious'
It resembles a small beaver or very large rat, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service would like to see more of them go into gumbo. Nutrias, semi-aquatic rodents native to South America, are an invasive species found in around 18 states,
Feds Want You to Eat More BBQ Swamp Rat to Save Your Local Marsh
Invasive nutria are wreaking havoc on delicate wetland ecosystems, and wildlife officials think eating them might be part of ...
Here’s why wildlife officials say you should eat rodents, lizards and other critters: ‘Chicken of the trees’
The US Fish & Wildlife Service is suggesting a tasting menu featuring some of the planet’s most troublesome creatures, saying ...
‘Put them on the menu’: Americans should eat more of these invasive animals, agency says
Fried, grilled or turned into tacos, these invasive species are “surprisingly tasty” and Americans are urged to help control ...
Could putting swamp rat on your dinner plate help save California marshland?
The invasive marshland rodent is wreaking havoc but California residents can do their part by catching and eating them, the U ...
Solution to control growing rat-like rodent population may be to eat them, government says: ‘Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria’
The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive ...
Crews use new tool to help fight nutria in California's Delta
Crews are now getting help from outside the state. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy supplied an $11 million grant to bring in detection dogs from the East Coast. The dogs are experts at ...
New campaign encourages Texans to eat invasive swamp rats
Nutria are just one of the edible nuisance critters Fish and Wildlife is highlighting in the campaign for National Invasive ...
'Their meat is lean, mild and tastes like rabbit.' Why eating wild rodents, hogs could save MS
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to eat more invasive species. You can get nutria, wild pigs, carp and northern ...