This April 18, 2019, photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a nutria in Merced County, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP)
In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, Greg Gerstenberg, a senior wildlife biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, shows a muskrat in a trap intended to catch nutria as he prepares to release it back in a pond in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
This photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, shows the head of a dead frozen nutria with prominent orange teeth that will be taken to a laboratory for a necropsy in Los Banos, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, Sean McCain, a scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, cuts a sweet potato on a kayak in a pond as a bait for nutria in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, Sean McCain, a scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, sets up a feeding platform used to lure nutria in front of a surveillance camera in a pond in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
This photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, shows a surveillance camera used to take photos and video of nutria in a pond in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
This photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, shows a sweet potato used as bait in traps to lure nutria, a rodent, in Stevinson, Calif. With $10 million in state funding, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to deploy new tactics in its efforts to eradicate nutria. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)