Transcription of Aquatic Invasive Species - Maryland Sea Grant
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Aquatic Invasive Species - Maryland Sea Grant
What Are Nutria?Nutria (Myocastor coypus) areprolific Aquatic rodents nativeto South America. They wereintroduced into the UnitedStates during the late 1800sand early 1900s to establish afur farm industry. However,nutria farming was notsuccessful , and nutria wereintentionally released into thewild or translocated to theSoutheast to serve as weedcutters to control undesirablevegetation .The Species was first intro duced into Maryland s LowerEastern Shore in 1943 in orderto establish an experimentalfur station at the BlackwaterNational Wildlife Refuge. Thenutria population in thewildlife refuge increased toapproximately 50,000 by theearly Are They Harmful to theChesapeake Bay?
What Are Nutria? Nutria (Myocastor coypus) areprolific aquatic rodents native to South America. They were introduced into the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s to establish a
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