North Cowichan may have come up with one way to help deal with American Bullfrogs in its jurisdiction: eat them. The bullfrogs one of the most ravenous and invasive species in the region.
At its meeting on Sept. 6, council authorized recreational fisherman Michael Indge to use the municipality’s Chemainus Lake Park after hours so he can harvest the large American Bullfrogs, which pretty much eat anything they can fit in their mouths, for personal consumption.
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