A pest that eats away at crops and suddenly attacks people. There are significant risks associated with living things in Japan. However, for some reason, Vietnamese people living in Japan are hunting these creatures and eating and selling them. What is the reality of Vietnamese people living in Japan who lead such a “hunting lifestyle”? Reporter Yasuda Minetoshi takes a closer look!
*** ■The natural enemy of the giant snail In recent years, the topic of “living things” has been making waves in the news. For example, there is the damage caused by “invasive alien species” (such as the American crayfish) that spread to areas where they do not originally live due to artificial factors such as escaping from aquaculture farms, disrupting the ecosystem. In addition, due to the effects of environmental destruction and climate change, there are increasing cases of deer, wild boars, and other animals entering human living spaces and causing trouble. In recent years, damage to crops caused by birds and animals has amounted to 15 to 16 billion yen per year. However, there are people who secretly hunt, trade and eat these pests. They are foreign workers in Japan. In particular, technical trainees and bo doi (illegal residents and workers), many of whom come from rural areas of Vietnam, hunt and eat a variety of creatures. We investigated the reality of the “Vietnamese vs. pests” issue, which has not been visible to Japanese people until now. ＊＊＊ “A dozen or so Vietnamese male and female technical intern trainees often take buckets and enter this reservoir to collect giant snails,” said Nadeshiko Penta, a biological survey coordinator, in early June this year in a rice field along the Genkai Sea in northwest Kyushu. In the agricultural water reservoir that he showed me, shocking pink eggs were scattered here and there, evidence of the reproduction of giant pond snails. The giant apple snail, also known as the apple snail, is a freshwater snail native to South America. The shell height is huge, reaching 50 to 80 mm, and although it is not closely related to snails, it looks very similar. The brightly colored eggs are also poisonous. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and local governments often announce the damage caused by giant pond snails, as they cause severe damage by eating rice seedlings immediately after planting. Their weakness is their susceptibility to cold, but in recent years, due to the effects of global warming, they have been able to survive the winter, mainly in western Japan, and are now breeding successfully. It is a typical invasive alien species that increases its population abnormally in environments where there are no natural predators, disrupting the ecosystem. (Source: Weekly Playboy News, distributed on Saturday, September 28th at 7:00 a.m., 2024/09/28 (Sat) 22:12:43.19.)
Eating and selling them means that they benefit from the existence of the creatures, so it would be a problem if their numbers decreased, so they probably won’t be eradicated. In fact, they might even be scattered elsewhere.
I don’t think they’re going to lose food or livelihoods, so it’s possible that their numbers are actually increasing. Unlike livestock, they’re wild, so they don’t need special care, so it’s probably easier.
There’s this ink-covered Nguyen hanging around the neighborhood in the middle of the day. I bet he’s a former intern, so why is he even allowed to stay there?
That’s fine as long as they’re only eating the invasive alien species, but it’s obvious that they’ll soon be eating them all up and start eating the native species as well We need to thin them out and adjust the situation.
It may be the reason why bears have been coming down to human settlements recently. The illegal Nguyens, whose numbers are unknown, may be secretly becoming food and people have become accustomed to the taste.
Unlike me, who gets diarrhea easily, Vietnamese people must have amazing intestinal conditions. I feel like I’m keeping a wild animal in my stomach. I have the impression that Chinese people dissolve things using poison.
You’re writing in a way that praises Vietnamese people, but there are also illegal immigrants among them, and they are the ones who organize and steal livestock and crops.
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