Nutria are a nuisance animal in South Louisiana. There is Federal/state program that gives an incentive payment of $6 per tail. You have to have signed landowner permission. I have eaten nutria they are very similar to swamp rabbit in there habits and what they eat. However the old male nutria can be very tough and musky. Young nutria would be hard to differentiate from rabbit in a well cooked dish. FYI nutria backstrap is served in fine restaurants in some European countries. Nutria feed on marsh plants and roots. They are very prolific and destroy marshland by eating the roots that hold the marshes together causing coastal erosion . Hence the removal program.
Although it is a rodent so are muskrats, beaver, squirrels, and rabbits which are all eaten in many areas of the USA.
To each his own!
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