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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.
THEY called it Nakabuhi, which literally meant “released” or “let loose.” It could also mean “being freed.” The festival was founded in Buhi, a town noted for its Lake Buhi where once thrived the “sinarapan,” considered to be the smallest edible fish in the world. There are many stories about…
Since the government is moving to protect the livelihoods of Filipino fisherfolk, it should complement a three-month ban on the sale of imported fish in wet markets with measures to boost domestic fish production.