Cajuns and Creoles EAT them! Taste like chicken! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > INVASION OF THE GIANT RATS 20-POUND BEASTS > SWAMPING JERSEY By TIM PERONE > and DAVID K. LI > [0] [Print] > <http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com\ > /seven/12062007/news/regionalnews/invasion_of_the_giant_rats_49358.htm> > [Email] > <http://www.nypost.com/efriend/efriend.htm?url=http://www.nypost.com/sev\ > en/12062007/news/regionalnews/invasion_of_the_giant_rats_49358.htm> > [Digg It] > <http://www.nypost.com/seven/12062007/news/regionalnews/invasion_of_the_\ > giant_rats_49358.htm#> [Reddit] > <http://www.nypost.com/seven/12062007/news/regionalnews/invasion_of_the_\ > giant_rats_49358.htm#> [Permalink] > <http://www.nypost.com/seven/12062007/news/regionalnews/invasion_of_the_\ > giant_rats_49358.htm#> [Story Bottom] > December 6, 2007 -- Giant rodents are about to take over New Jersey! > > And even if the Garden State might not look any different, it has some > officials worried about the ugly, 20-pound nutria which have made their > way here from points south of the Mason-Dixon line. > > The furry rodent is widely considered one of the most damaging creatures > to marshland ecosystems - which, of course, would make New Jersey the > critter's spiritual home. > > "I spotted it in Lower Alloway Township, Oct. 29," state Division of > Fish and Wildlife biologist Andrew Burnett told The Star-Ledger of > Newark. > > "The animal was swimming across Alloway Creek approximately 150 feet > from my position." > > For decades, the nutria have slowly made their way up the Eastern > Sseaboard. It was first recorded in large numbers in Delaware and > Maryland in the 1980s > >
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