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Nutria in Ireland.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Yea they've been down around cork a long time now. Numbers are very small i believe and there's an ongoimg projectopic o eradicate them.

    Read somewhere we used to have muskrat here too. Years ago. Had to get a trapper from the UK to eradicate them. Caught over 600 in one small area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭cookimonster


    These are found in France as well, but in the 13 years I holiday'd there I never once seen one alive or dead.
    Wonder what they taste like:D.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    I always knew that if Ireland was overrun with giant rats, they'd come from Cork.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    Well Sika deer were introduced into the irish countryside by escapee's from Lord Powerscourts private menagerie near Enniskerry, so this sort of thing has happened before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭CZ455Mad


    Gravelly wrote: »
    I always knew that if Ireland was overrun with giant rats, they'd come from Cork.


    Easy now not everyone from cork is a rat Hahahaha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    gunny123 wrote: »
    Well Sika deer were introduced into the irish countryside by escapee's from Lord Powerscourts private menagerie near Enniskerry, so this sort of thing has happened before.

    You won't see a sika digging burrows to collapse river banks and flood areas. Read up on the nutria and the damage they do. Hurricane Katrina hit the US and the floods were a result of banks bursting so heavily and trees collapsing put down to overrun areas of nutria rats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭gunny123


    You won't see a sika digging burrows to collapse river banks and flood areas.


    I never suggested they would. My point is, introduced species can often out breed and force out native species, sika deer and the American grey squirrel to name two animals. Giant hogweed in the plant world and crayfish in the marine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,009 ✭✭✭minktrapper


    gunny123 wrote: »
    I never suggested they would. My point is, introduced species can often out breed and force out native species, sika deer and the American grey squirrel to name two animals. Giant hogweed in the plant world and crayfish in the marine.



    Don't forget to mention the American Mink.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    gunny123 wrote: »
    I never suggested they would. My point is, introduced species can often out breed and force out native species, sika deer and the American grey squirrel to name two animals. Giant hogweed in the plant world and crayfish in the marine.

    There's no invasive crayfish species in Ireland. Only our native one which are a protected species.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Has anyone seen one or even spoken to someone that has?
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Never saw crayfish, but lakes round me are simply carpeted with Zebra Mussels and their old shells.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭AnthonyCny


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Never saw crayfish, but lakes round me are simply carpeted with Zebra Mussels and their old shells.

    Are zebra mussels edible?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    AnthonyCny wrote: »
    Are zebra mussels edible?

    No idea, but if you go fishing with a sinking lure, they are easy caught ......... :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    AnthonyCny wrote: »
    Are zebra mussels edible?

    If you don't mind breaking into micro shells that are sharp and are tricker to open than a safe for about a half peanut worth of gunk..Then yea...Best leave them to the ducks and wild fowl.

    Now,crayfish OTOH and anyone who has eaten in New Orleans will know how tasty" crawdads" can be.:)
    Now I wonder are these nutria critters anyway tasty? :D

    Quick Google.
    We have a new game species folks!:D
    They are indeed edible and apprently taste like dark turkey meat.Seeing that they aren't garbage eaters like the common rat and are plant eaters you wont have to worry too much about the more disgusting contents of the average sewer rat when handling them. So to sort this problem out,we just eat the invader.
    http://www.wideopenspaces.com/kids-nutria-rats-dinner/

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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Now,crayfish OTOH and anyone who has eaten in New Orleans will know how tasty" crawdads" can be.:)
    Never tasted them, but from TV programs where you see a huge pot of them being cooked they look tasty as feck.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    They're same as crawfish in America. Taste like a river tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭él statutorio


    They're same as crawfish in America. Taste like a river tbh.

    Agreed. You can improve the taste by flushing them with fresh clean water for a few days prior to cooking (similar to carp) but even then they still don't taste great.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Awwwwww....................

    Could you not have left me thinking they were great?
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    They are,if you have ever eaten "gumbo" or a "boil" as they call it down "Orlean"
    Somewhat like lobster.However I'd say we'd be awhile getting 20 to 30 lbs of Irish crayfish together to try this.:P

    http://honestcooking.com/cook-crawfish/

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Cass wrote: »
    Awwwwww....................

    Could you not have left me thinking they were great?

    Crayfish are very nice to eat. I had them years ago, but you'd have to go to the UK if ya wanna try them now. Those signal crayfish are nice and big, compared to what we have. Saying that, doesn't Aldi or Tesco do them from time to time. Can't remember which. Just the tails cooked, ready to eat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭cookimonster


    Lidl do them, in brine if I remember rightly, very tasty.
    We used to collect them from rocky lake shores while we were fishing, if you where lucky you'd get a coffee cup full of tails for an open soda bread sandwich.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,009 ✭✭✭minktrapper


    Wouldn't like to meet one of them on the river at dusk on a summers night.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Just a thought, has anyone contacted the NPWS about them. I presume it's shoot on sight.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭Vizzy


    Cass wrote: »
    Just a thought, has anyone contacted the NPWS about them. I presume it's shoot on sight.

    Was just about to ask the same thing !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Cass wrote: »
    Just a thought, has anyone contacted the NPWS about them. I presume it's shoot on sight.

    Wouldn't you think the NPWS would ask the NARGC to ask members to help sort the situation, especially as they seem to be unable to sort it themselves.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    They haven't the man power or money. So as you said why not turn to the everyday shooters (the ones they are currently trying to shaft with night time bans and compulsory deer training courses) to do the ground work.

    At the very least release a statement about them.
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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    No point in guessing. Just lashed off an e-mail to the NPWS to find out. Will post here when i get a reply.
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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Quick response from the NPWS. I got a full reply with details on reporting sightings, etc. Here is the key part:
    In relation to your specific queries, individuals are permitted to shoot coypu and a licence is not required to do so.

    With regard to sightings:
    Ireland is obliged to report any sightings to the Commission and undertake effective eradication measures to remove any animals from the wild. Please report any sightings of this invasive species to the National Biodiversity Data Centre - http://records.biodiversityireland.ie/record/invasives
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Here is a good write up on invasive species in Ireland. The Coypu, and the importance of sorting this problem as quickly as possible.

    https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-examiner/20170517/282050506994753


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Bumping this as there is another article that they are spreading and sightings include Dublin.

    Waterworks Ireland say it'll cost millions to eradicate them, but urge people not to try and trap or harm them!

    Don't get that. Who better than hunters to control these vermin? Won't cost them a penny and we'll be more active than a "program" that as of yet is not working and when it finally does it'll be ran once or twice a year.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,134 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    They'll probably get Inland Fisheries Ireland[We're clueless!] personnel to deal with it.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭Richard308


    My wife came home last night (Thursday)from work and said she saw a thing cross the road in front of her, not a fox, dark brown, bigger than a cat with a fat body neck and head. Then I showed her the article and said 100% one of them. Killarney area now has them. I’ll throw out the trail camera,


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Richard308 wrote: »
    My wife came home last night (Thursday)from work and said she saw a thing cross the road in front of her, not a fox, dark brown, bigger than a cat with a fat body neck and head. Then I showed her the article and said 100% one of them. Killarney area now has them. I’ll throw out the trail camera,

    What about an otter? Is there a chance that is what she saw? There were several sightings around the country at the time of the sightings in Cork, including I think, Longford, Limerick, and even here in Tullamore. Now with sightings in Dublin, id say most if not all these were misidentifications. Killarney, on the other hand aint too far away from where the original Nutria escaped from, so maybe this is indeed, what she saw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭Richard308


    It’s possible, it was after 10 at night, but with pine Martin, otter and mink present in the area and we have seen all three together. They were suggested by myself along with a dirty badger, she was adamant it was none of those. Such a coincidence the night before it was released in the paper. It might be one but who knows what animals have been illegally smuggled in down through the years. It might not be a nutria either.
    Eddie B wrote: »
    What about an otter? Is there a chance that is what she saw? There were several sightings around the country at the time of the sightings in Cork, including I think, Longford, Limerick, and even here in Tullamore. Now with sightings in Dublin, id say most if not all these were misidentifications. Killarney, on the other hand aint too far away from where the original Nutria escaped from, so maybe this is indeed, what she saw.


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