Anda, Bolinao still red tide-infected
IT remains unsafe to eat shellfish, including alamang, collected from the coastal areas of Anda and Bolinao based on the latest testing of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) for red tide toxins.
However, shellfish from Bolinao, Sual, Lingayen, Binmaley, Dagupan City and San Fabian, all along the Lingayen Gulf, are still relatively safe from red tide toxin.
In an advisory dated April 1, 2014, the BFAR kept the alert as waters remain red tide positive more than a month after the first advisory was issued against gathering, selling and consumption of shellfishes, like mussels and oysters as well as alamang in the two affected areas.
The new advisory was issued as temperature continues to rise with the onset of the dry season, prompting a phenomenon called algal bloom which spawns the growth of the tiny red tide organisms.
Following the latest BFAR advisory, Task Force Anti-Red Tide formed by Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez of Dagupan City remains on alert 24/7 to prevent shipment of shellfishes from Bolinao and Anda into the city which serves as a trading hub for aquaculture products.
The task force is also on alert versus shellfishes that may be slipped in by traders coming from Navotas and Malabon in Metro Manila, including those from Bataan, all along the Manila Bay which is also red-tide infected.—LVM
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