Eat a Big Rat-Like Rodent, U.S. Says

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.
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.
The government wants you to eat these giant rodents and other invasive species
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has targeted these species as more than just threats to local ecosystems. They're also delicious.
US Fish and Wildlife is begging you to eat more invasive marsh rodents
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 ways depending on one’s preference.
Invaded by rat-like semi-aquatic rodent species? Eat them, says US federal agency
As part of National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the federal agency highlighted the deliciousness of nutria, a dark-coloured, semi-aquatic rodent resembling a large rat or a beaver. "Eat me! Please? I'm invasive and delicious," a Facebook post from the agency read.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourages people to eat nutria to combat the invasive species causing environmental damage.
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Nutria are just one of the edible nuisance critters Fish and Wildlife is highlighting in the campaign for National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Others included were the northern snakehead, the green iguana, invasive carp, and feral hogs .
Keep an invasive species in check: Eat this big rodent, U.S. Fish and Wildlife says
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.
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