Zander Fur bought about 200,000 muskrat pelts last year, most from the Midwest. About 90 percent of those will end up in China, for jackets, coats and linings. John Zander talks to someone in the ...

It's thought the mammals help wild rice by stirring up sediment and controlling ... push them into the park, or they push them into Canada," he said. The muskrat project was a bust.

"We had the public asking, why don't you do muskrat?" Mears said. Mears herself grew up eating the Eastern Shore delicacy. "My father was a waterman, and we lived off the land a lot," Mears said.

For 40 days, Roman Catholics are supposed to give up something that means a lot to ... This is where the word ‘Easter’ comes from Eating muskrat during Lent is a tradition that is alive ...