The US Fish and Wildlife Service has instructed residents of California to eat a certain rodent that has been called a "giant swamp rat" in efforts to protect the state's marshland.

“Eating invasive species can help protect native wildlife ... Read Next: Hunting Nutria with the Rat Pack in Louisiana Nutria are notorious for their voracious appetites and destructive feeding habits ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suggests hunting, cooking and eating invasive feral hogs, iguana, carp, Northern Snakehead ...

By Simon J. Levien 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.

The five species are nutria, northern snakehead, green iguana, invasive carp, and wild boar, also known as feral hogs or wild ...

Much like how nutria showed up in Louisiana, nutria showed up in Texas in 1940s for fur farms. After the fur industry went belly up, many nutria farmers simply released their nutria into the wild. Not ...

The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive rat-like rodent ... that people try eating nutria.

EDIRNE, TURKIYE - FEBRUARY 08: A nutria, also known as coypus or swamp rats ... So you're ready to eat nutria, but you're not sure how to cook it? Never fear, as Louisiana's Department of Fish ...

Cooking up the swamp rats could be a solution ... pointing to a recipe from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Alligator & Fur Division. Per TPWD, nutria are considered nuisance ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species -- eat them ... the USFWS says. Nutria are "oversized, wetland-loving rodents were brought to ...