The sinarapan, the smallest edible fish in the world, is now endangered due to the conversion of Lake Buhi into fish cages for profit-seeking.
I COME from Buhi in Camarines Sur, a place that is well-known for a lake that is the habitat of the smallest edible fish in the world, which we call 'sinarapan.' I still have childhood memories of it being cooked and prepared in various ways, including drying it as 'dinaing,' a feat which the unfamiliar thought was a joke since they cannot imagine how to turn a fish that is averaging a half centimeter in size into 'badî' or dried fish.
There were also other types of fish that used to abound in the 18 square kilometers of freshwater that comprised Lake Buhi. We had the native tilapia, which we called 'atas,' and the native 'karpa,' which was tastier than the carp I've had in other places. But sinarapan was the star of the show, the one that made our town land a place in textbooks and almanacs all over the world.Sadly, the allure of capitalism and profit-seeking, when people began farming tilapia species and virtually converted a large portion of the lake into fish cages, has turned sinarapan into an endangered specie
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