Louisiana is full of them. I have been importing ours there. /sarcasm 8>)
Nutria are a major pest in Louisiana, digging into levees and damaging sugarcane and rice crops. In Maryland, they destroyed marshland essential for the marine productivity of the Chesapeake. A comprehensive program of trapping is now near to eradicating them.
“Louisiana is full of them.”
In Tidewater (VA), someone sent out a sheet of recipes for the critters burrowing into Back Bay, the buffer between the fresh water swamps and the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s still a rat no matter how big. My SO, a good country boy, compares it to squirrel. He said just cover anything in gravy and you can eat it over biscuits.
“I have been importing ours there. /sarcasm 8>)”
Well, exporting.
Yes, but they are so nutria-tious.