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Since the city’s rivers are deemed free from possible red tide infection, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has recommended a full-scale production of tahong (mussels) culture.
Westly Rosario, chief of BFAR-National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center here said Thursday that unknown to many, there is already a mussel production along a five-meter-deep water section in a river in Barangay Lucao that serves as seeding area.
“We have a source of mussel seeds that do not come from area affected by red tide,” he said.
Rosario said Dagupan has no history of red tide.
He said Alfredo Dawana who has been involved into aquaculture in Dagupan over the decades, recently turned over to BFAR thousands of mussel seeds. These would be transplanted in BFAR center’s oysters area of BFAR demo center.
“Unknown to many, Dagupan has this (mussel) in deep waters because in the river, mussels don’t thrive in brackish water,” Rosario said.
He said fish growers can venture into this for extra income by producing mussel seeds, instead of sourcing them in Bolinao or in Cavite which have history of red tide.
Rosario said there are two kinds of mussels cultured in the Philippines, brown and green lipped. Dagupan would start cultivating the green-lipped kind. (Tita Roces)
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