The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

LULING, La. — Cajun country’s No. 1 nuisance — 10-pound swamp rats with orange buck teeth and webbed feet — are Kyle Loupe’s cash cow. Emerging from the bayous in an airboat splotched with blood and ...