4 Pangasinan towns free from red tide
>> Monday, April 30, 2012
DAGUPAN CITY – After three months of monitoring, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has declared the coastal waters of Bolinao, Anda, Alaminos and Wawa in Bani town, all in Pangasinan, free from red tide.
In
a letter, BFAR-Region 1 director Nestor Domenden said laboratory tests
conducted by the agency and the concerned local governments showed that
shrimps, crabs and shellfish like mussels and oysters gathered from the four towns
“are now free from toxic red tide and safe for human consumption.”
But
Domenden added that as a precautionary measure, the concerned towns are advised
to require market inspectors, quarantine officers and administrators to demand
an auxiliary invoice or clearance for fish and shellfish coming from other
provinces and towns to ensure that these do not come from red tide-affected
areas.
Shellfish
traders had been complaining of poor sales for the past three months because of
the red tide alert.
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