Dasol preserves environment to protect salt industry
NO to mining, no to fish cages, no to power plants.
This, in a nutshell, is the mantra of the local government of Dasol to help protect the quality of its salt industry.
Mayor Noel Nacar said granting miners and fish cage operators to operate in the town will only lead to the exploitation of the town’s natural resources and affect the quality of its premier product which is salt.
Dasol’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) passed and approved by the Sangguniang Bayan stresses zero mining and zero fish cage operation in the town.
If we allow them (miners and fish cage operators) to enter, our salt industry will be in danger …and who will benefit from it, those from Dasol or outsiders?“ Nacar said during the KBP Forum held at the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) on Thursday.
Six barangays of Dasol are into the salt industry. One family in these barangays tend to at least 30 salt beds. One salt bed can produce 2.5 big cans of harvested salt, said Nacar.
Dasol produces two kinds of salt-the fine salt and the solar or rock salt. By solar, this means the salt is dried or ‘cooked’ under the sun while fine salt is cooked in a big ‘banga’ under wood fire. Dasolenians also produce bagoong and boneless fish in bottles.
“Dasol Bay is clean and unpolluted. We will not allow non-environment-friendly businesses to thrive and destroy our natural resource and the townfolks’ main industry,” Nacar said.
The name of Pangasinan province originated from the words ’panag -asinan’meaning ‘where salt is made.’ (VHS/PIA1-Pangasinan)
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