Frogs

Quote from Commercial Frog Farming



"Raising and selling frogs on a commercial basis has not proven to be successful economically in Virginia or elsewhere in the United States to our knowledge. Although farming for frog legs sounds promising, operating a profitable frog farm seems to be more of a myth than a reality. Those few individuals who claim to be successful frog farmers generally are distribu- tors engaged in the selling of adult frogs, tadpoles, or frog eggs, frequently harvested from the wild.

Many “frog farms” turn out to be natural marshy areas, swamps or shallow ponds with abundant food and habitat suitable to the needs of wild frogs. At some frog farms, culture methods simply consist of increasing the shoreline area, erecting a fence to exclude predators and retain the frogs, and stocking wild frog eggs or tadpoles. The frogs usually are left to raise themselves."

See also

http://web.archive.org/web/20090205022752/http://ext.vt.edu:80/pubs/fisheries/420-255/420-255.pdf

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