CDFW Confirmed Nutria in Delta

Post by **WB Staff** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:57 pm

CDFW today confirmed the presence of nutria on agricultural land west of Stockton in San Joaquin County, which makes the fifth California county (in addition to Fresno, Merced, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties) where the destructive rodents have been detected since their reappearance in California in the spring of 2017.

CDFW has launched an eradication effort to remove the large, semi-aquatic invasive species from the landscape where they threaten wetlands, the state’s agricultural economy and water infrastructure. San Joaquin County represents the northern-most detection of nutria in the state and signals their presence in the upper end of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where their burrowing and capacity to reproduce exponentially jeopardizes the Delta’s network of levees, water conveyance systems and flood-control protections.

ash · Post by **ash** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:13 pm

When are they going to announce the legal bag limit on these suckers!

birdman920 · Post by **birdman920** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:55 pm

I think there is a bounty on them in the south ?$?$....

ash · Post by **ash** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 8:59 am

Not a bounty but you can hunt and trap them - youtube Nurtia shooting or hunting. Hard to believe that it started with 13 of these rascals imported from Argentina and now they are found all over the place.

Turkeyman · Post by **Turkeyman** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:24 pm

Invasive species there is now bag limit or season; until the state figures out how many people are shooting them then you'll need tags, a license and probably a special training class online to be able to identify them from muskrats, beavers otters etc. All for a fee of course.

Turkeyman · Post by **Turkeyman** » Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:25 pm

Invasive species there is now bag limit or season; until the state figures out how many people are shooting them then you'll need tags, a license and probably a special training class online to be able to identify them from muskrats, beavers otters etc. All for a fee of course.