Nutria???

[ghosthunter]

Read for yourself here.


http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/nutria.html

[ghosthunter]

And here.

Wastage Laws seem to apply to those animal used as table fare.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/questions/83/What+is+the+definition+of+%22wastage%2C%22+and+when+does+it+apply%3F

[ghosthunter]

And just for fun.


http://boingboing.net/2013/04/29/meat-from-a-20-kb-swamp-rat-t.html

[Halo]

Would you be happier if I hung it on a fence? PM me an address and I'll mail it to whoever wants it 

More than a few threads around here about leaving coyotes and what not lay.

I don't have to leave the coyotes lay around here any more, I just call Sakoshooter and he comes and butchers them up.    If he doesn't answer my PM though I'm leaving it lay unless it's close enough to the house to stink up the place, then I'll leave it lay out back. 

[ghosthunter]

I am so sorry I just Cannot help myself 


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cD_dY-bIV5k

[Houndhunter]

I am so sorry I just Cannot help myself 


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cD_dY-bIV5k

I couldnt stop watching that for some reason

And ya, you aint gonna get in trouble for shooting and leaving a nutria

[Heredoggydoggy]

You'd eat a Beaver?  I saw a show years ago that showed the 10 smelliest animals, and Beavers were at the top of the list.

[bowhunterwa87]

You'd eat a Beaver?  I saw a show years ago that showed the 10 smelliest animals, and Beavers were at the top of the list.

[washelkhunter]

You'd eat a Beaver?  I saw a show years ago that showed the 10 smelliest animals, and Beavers were at the top of the list.

Once you get past the smell you got it licked.

[bearpaw]

Shoot and leave? Coyote Bait? What should I do with it (I'm not eating a rat)?

You say you don't want to shoot a beaver and then get in trouble with WDFW, yet you ask if you should just "shoot and leave" it? Shooting and leaving ANYTHING will end up with wastage of wildlife charges.

I said I don't want to shoot a beaver. Meaning I will have positive ID before I kill something since the state views a native animal like beaver differently than an invasive animal like the nutria.

A nutria is a pest and I would leave. Kinda like coyotes, they are a pest and harass/harm livestock, they are shot on sight but nobody around here has a use for them. Washington State says nutria are no bueno, so ya I'll kill it and leave it.

I know what you said. You missed my point.

Killing it and leaving it will end up with charges from WDFW. It is against the law to shoot and leave anything, doesn't matter if it's a deer or a coyote. Nothing like admitting to a wildlife law violation on a hunting website.

I do not think so Bigtex. Show us that law please.

Page 79 Big Game regs, Item #2
"You may not allow game animals or game birds you have taken to recklessly be wasted."

Nutria are not classified as game animals.

I'm curious about this too, what law says you must recover a coyote, ground squirrel, gopher, or other non-game pest?

[runamuk]

Shoot and leave? Coyote Bait? What should I do with it (I'm not eating a rat)?

You say you don't want to shoot a beaver and then get in trouble with WDFW, yet you ask if you should just "shoot and leave" it? Shooting and leaving ANYTHING will end up with wastage of wildlife charges.

I said I don't want to shoot a beaver. Meaning I will have positive ID before I kill something since the state views a native animal like beaver differently than an invasive animal like the nutria.

A nutria is a pest and I would leave. Kinda like coyotes, they are a pest and harass/harm livestock, they are shot on sight but nobody around here has a use for them. Washington State says nutria are no bueno, so ya I'll kill it and leave it.

I know what you said. You missed my point.

Killing it and leaving it will end up with charges from WDFW. It is against the law to shoot and leave anything, doesn't matter if it's a deer or a coyote. Nothing like admitting to a wildlife law violation on a hunting website.

I do not think so Bigtex. Show us that law please.

Page 79 Big Game regs, Item #2
"You may not allow game animals or game birds you have taken to recklessly be wasted."

Nutria are not classified as game animals.

I'm curious about this too, what law says you must recover a coyote, ground squirrel, gopher, or other non-game pest?

nutria are an invasive species brought into the country as livestock they came here as a great protein source seems beef industry didnt like the competition ...that ought to change it up a little.

that said do people need to eat rockchucks or skin them or?? how about them sage rat thingies??  norway rats, brown rats, field mice etc?  vermin usually do not fall under game animal wastage guidelines unless one is going by the lack of a law which means wdfw now has some new laws to quickly get on the books.....

[Curly]

I missed this thread until now.  Bigtex was stating the wildlife wastage laws in another thread today.  http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,154284.50.html

I am amazed that officers would cite for wasting a yote, or nutria.  Sounds like the law needs changed.  I try really hard to never do anything illegal, and this law means that I can't shoot coyotes.....cuz I don't have anyone to give them to and I don't want to bring them home.  Crazy stuff. 

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[Dbax129]

So where are these things found in high concentrations? Sounds like a good critter to practice skinning/tanning with. That was their real original purpose anyway right?

[Windwalker]

Can find them in irrigation ditches all over Oregon. Some up here from what I understand but not privy to where the concentrated populations are.

Have a friend with Patterdale Terrier's that travels all over and has a ball hunting them. Was a mainstay for critter hunting when I was a kid. Farmers wanted them gone and they were thick as fleas. great fun. Had a few fur farms turn out their pens when the fur prices collapsed many years ago and the population skyrocketed.
Coolest slippers I saw were a set made out of a tanned nutria hide. Not sure if they are good for much else and no I haven't eaten one...
 "Save a tree eat a beaver" is my motto 

[ghosthunter]

http://www.clr.pdx.edu/docs/nutria%20workshop%20presentations/presentations/M.Davison.pps