Chefs at lakeside area restaurants may soon need to check out some cuisses de grenouille recipes. With Lake Chapala’s waters offering slim pickings these days, a local fishermen’s cooperative is taking the plunge into frog farming as an alternative livelihood.
The ground-breaking project headed by cooperative president Raul Oliva was launched on Tuesday, November 25, when the group released 12,000 tadpoles into a large cement tank where they will up mature over the next two months. Once the tiny polliwogs have lost their tails and developed appendages, they will be transferred to several other tanks to be fattened up over six months until they turn into full grown bullfrogs.
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