Control of nutria

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" Control of nutria "
Talbert, Rollo E.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	941769
Doc. No	:	LA2r4031tg
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Talbert, Rollo E.
Title & Author	:	Control of nutria [Article]\ Talbert, Rollo E.
Title of Periodical	:	Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1
Date	:	1962
Abstract	:	Nutria, which have increasingly been brought into California to be ranched for fur within the past decade, have know to have escaped, with the first known wild population seen in 1948. Initial attempts at control by use of carrot or sweet potato baits using zinc phosphide or strychnine were unsatisfactory. A trapping program begun in 1951 by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife (USFWS) is now considered the most effective control method. Use of No. 3 steel traps is described, as are the merits of shooting either during nighttime on feeding grounds, or in daytime.