Standing on a boat dock in Venice, Gabe Macormic faced a unique challenge: Find someone willing to take a sun-baked, 10-ton heap of dead nutria off his hands. Macormic had, on a lark, revived the long ...

Clad head-to-toe in camouflage and with a grin spreading across her mud-smeared face, Mikayla Ball stepped off a boat and slapped a fat, orange-toothed rodent on the dock, the first official kill of ...

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

As the airboat skids across the mudflat, the two shooters up front draw their beads on the nutria that’s running at one o’clock off the bow. Captain Walter Heathcock accelerates, closing the distance ...

VENICE — A group of men gathered on a dock, their faces flushed after a full day on the bayou. In front of them, a crowd clad in camouflage and fishing gear marked the boundaries of an unlikely field ...