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Beware those who love eating exotic food that includes the adobo (cook in soy and vinegar) because this is now prohibited in our place. No these creatures are not considered endangered, its just a move to protect us.
Who cares? Maybe you might say. I know you are not eating tadpoles because exotic is not your type, but there are people who really like the tastes of soft meat of little frogs. And oh, kids, they catch tadpoles because they play it. Poor tadpoles.
What are tadpoles? Hmm, I know you know that they are the baby frogs. They grow big and they are called frogs. That is simple biology.
The move is from the government to ensure the growing of this little head with long tail baby frogs. There are many local government units now approving an ordinance to prohibit catching of tadpoles.
Why they prohibit the catching?
Simple, because according to some agriculturists and farmers, tadpoles are helpful to their farming. It helps the environment. They have indirect positive effect in farming of rice, and other crops—in agriculture.
How can they be so helpful?
Think that these tadpoles grow as frogs. Because they are voracious to insects, when they get hungry, they will look and hunt for certain pests and will eat them. These pests that cause harm to crops of farmers will be then eliminated because they were eaten by frogs.
We call this food chain: we plant rice, grasshoppers infest our crops; the frogs eat the grasshoppers; we ate the frogs, then we guard the crops. Food chain.
The good news, its only the tadpoles are prohibited to catch, it does not include the frogs. You know, some of us love to eat the meat of frog because it tastes like chicken. Actually, this season now, lots of people catching frogs in the rice field because they just love to have them in dinner.
But the move is good for our bio-diversity. Protecting them is a move to give us some comfort of food. Good for the environment.
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Tadpols when I think of what we used to do when we were kids I just laugh. There was a small stream where the neighbourhood kids used to come together with containers then get into the stream and start catching the tadpols.usually it's th3boys who used to go ahead and catch them while we watch from afar. So I remember telling them that they were not fish they were frogs but they wouldn't listen, so we would play around them and watch them grow but at some point my big brother pours it out. It was adventourous to do such things but not anymore
But now, our kid's play will be halted because of some ordinances and laws prohibiting people to catch them. For the good of human kind we need to follow the rules.
I have never heard this kind of ordinance. What I know is about the protection and preservation of endangered species in plants and animals. But tadpoles seem to be "weird" I should say. In any manner, it is a good move. Your government deserves to be lauded. In our country, there are various laws and ordinances protecting the environment including those on the air, on land and on the sea. Well, logically, these tadpoles probably are also included.
Frogs are exotic foods. People cook them and eat. Frog delicacy is delicious. It tastes good and it is good for the body. By the way, these tadpoles have reminded me of my early days. We used to catch them from the canal where we always passed after our classes. They're so many of them in the canal, swimming to and fro. We picked them up and placed them inside the small bottle. We enjoyed watching them inside the bottle. When we're done playing with them, we threw them back to the canal.
I have heard in some towns having the same ordinance passing in their council. Maybe there is already a law protecting this tadpoles because of its importance in farming and the towns and cities are just adopting this into their town. But it is a laudable move because frogs now are on the verge of extinction because it is considered to be a good food.