What do you do when pests threaten your immediate environment, destroying foliage and turning beautiful natural habitats into wastelands? Why, you eat them of course. Wait, what? Yup, that's what ...

After almost a decade of turning wetland-destroying rodents into high-end dog biscuits, Baton Rouge-based Marsh Dog announced this week it is shutting down. The company did what many had tried and ...

Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico, and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That’s where Justin Choate lives. Justin Choate hunts nutria from his boat in the wetlands near ...

PECAN ISLAND, La. — The state of Louisiana is upping the bounty on nutria rodents that devour and ruin thousands of acres of marshland in coastal Louisiana every year. The rodents have been eating ...

PECAN ISLAND — Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That's where Justin Choate lives. Choate, 43, has been around Louisiana's waters ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — A new campaign is encouraging Americans to consider an unusual solution to invasive species control: eating them. Launched during National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the initiative ...

Delacroix fisherman Thomas Gonzales would rather collect crabs and hunt alligators, but between seafood seasons, he hunts nutria. Though it’s edible, he doesn’t eat the meat. He collects $5 per tail ...

BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. -- Trapper Dean Hopkins noses his boat along the riverbank and cuts the motor. There's a cage nestled in the tall, yellow grass. Hopkins grabs it and swings it ...

PECAN ISLAND, La. (AP) — Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico, and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That’s where Justin Choate lives. Choate, 43, has been around Louisiana ...