Today, the rodents are also causing trouble along the Atlantic coast and in portions of California. While rodents aren’t a staple on many US dinner plates, nutria can be prepared a number of different ...

Invasive nutria are wreaking havoc on delicate wetland ecosystems, and wildlife officials think eating them might be part of ...

Fried, grilled or turned into tacos, these invasive species are “surprisingly tasty” and Americans are urged to help control them one bite at a time.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has instructed residents of California to eat a certain rodent that has been called a "giant ...

The Northern Snakehead has white, and flaky meat that goes great in fish tacos or just grilled or fried, the USFWS says.

Nutria gumbo. Their meat is lean, mild and tastes like rabbit ... Its exact population, though, is unknown. The rat-like behemoth is larger than a muskrat and smaller than a beaver — two ...

By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.

Cooking up the swamp rats could be a solution to the growing problem. The lean and mild meat of nutria has been compared to rabbit or the dark meat of a turkey. Wildlife officials said the ...

The post went on to explain that in celebration of February’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week, people should hunt, catch and cook the large, rat ... a Nutria.” The rodent‘s meat ...

Adults are about 2 feet long and weigh some 15 to 20 pounds, with plenty of meat for a gumbo or ... that image is taking on the nutria, an invasive swamp rat that threatens to damage levees ...

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The agency even rolled out a catchy slogan: "Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria." Adults are about two feet long and weigh some 15 to 20 pounds, with plenty of meat for a gumbo or stew. In the wild ...