Posted on 08/17/2018 1:49:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
For the small six-person team tasked with combating California's nutria infestation, a typical day consists of working in 100-degree weather, wading through marshes and avoiding traps built to catch 20-pound rodents, targeting about 2 million acres.
Nutria, a destructive rat-like mammal, is currently burrowing into central California's wetlands. In the spring, the Department of Fish and Wildlife began to warn the public about the dangers of the animal, which devastate agricultural infrastructure by burrowing into levees, roadbeds and canal beds.
But in the past few months, only 200 nutria have been exterminated, 100 of which were found in a pond on a single private farm in central California.
As the agency prepares for an intensive survey of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, officials say they have no idea what the actual numbers of nutria will look like. In April, there were two confirmed sightings of nutria just outside the delta, a region critical to California's waterways.
"We can't guess, we have no idea what we're going to find in there," California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Peter Tira told SFGATE. "We need to survey and see to what extent they're in there, we haven't determined a complete range of nutria in the region."
"Our goal is to keep the nutria out of the delta as much as possible," Tira said. "That's the epicenter of our water control and flood control in California."
The Department of Fish and Wildlife isn't expected to get people on the ground in the delta until later this month, since they are still in the process of getting permission from farmers and other landowners to access private property. Most of the land in the delta is private.
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Clearly a lot of Nutriaphobia around here
Rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, or strawberry tart.
Well, I’ll have a slice without so much rat in it.
Let people in CA (really) own guns and legalize all year hunting of them.
The 200+ pound Rat problem is the real threat.
Well if you use enough zatarains, maybe.
Nutria Tacos, Nutria tamales, Nutria quesadillas, Nutria burritos, Nutria Enchiladas, Nutria chili, Nutria Tostadas, Nutria Chalupas.............you get the picture..............
In Mississippi they pay a $25 Bounty for Feral Hogs, or so I was told. I’m not sure who pays the $25 though.
The Venezuelans are hungry.
Catch them, butcher them, and add salt and pepper, and ship them off to Venezuela.
Sounds like a job for Billy The Exterminator
ROTFL!
They only come out at night....................
>> Store-bought, hunted or in a restaurant? <<
Probably more relevant:
Wild-caught, farmed, or plucked out of the polluted sewers of SoCal.
Market dead nutria as the perfect fertilizer for cannibas plants.
Ignant Yankee here, but Isn’t the pork worth way more? Roadkill deer is a delicacy among some of my relatives.
Mind you, every time I see “nutria” I think hazelnut and chocolate...
Eat them.
They’re pretty tasty.
And it’s true that I Will eat about anything.
5.56mm
I will eat anything that doesn’t eat me first.................
Why the heck would you name it Nutria? It sounds like a sugar substitute, not an animal.
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