Thursday, 2. January 2003

Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 12:11:32 PM CET

After Famed Calaveras Jumping Contest, What to Do With All Those Frogs?

For years, organizers of the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jumping Jubilee urged participants to carefully put the frogs back where they got them after the annual contest.

Last summer, they found out the practice is illegal in California.

It's not against the law to catch the bullfrogs that compete in the contest - but it's illegal to put them back, said Ed Pert, the California Department of Fish and Game's fisheries programs chief. Technically, violators could face a $5,000 fine and a year in jail.

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