Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Assets brand. INQUIRER FILES
MANILA, Philippines — No traces of oil and chemical compounds had been present in samples of fish and shellfish in seven areas surrounding Manila Bay even after the gasoline spillage brought on by a sunken motor tanker.
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Assets (BFAR) stated that as of Monday, August 12, all fish samples from Navotas, Manila, Parañaque, and Las Piñas, Bataan, Bulacan, and Pampanga are free from oil and grease contamination.
Additionally as of August 9, fish samples from Batangas, significantly within the areas Nasugbu, Lian, and Calatagan, carried out confirmed that each one samples had been destructive for traces of oil and grease.
“Primarily based on the acknowledged outcomes, the general public is due to this fact knowledgeable that fish from Bataan, Bulacan, Pampanga, Batangas, and Metro Manila (Navotas, Parañaque, and Las Piñas) are protected for human consumption,” the BFAR stated in an announcement on Tuesday.
Then again, fish and shellfish collected in Cavite “are nonetheless not protected for human consumption based mostly on sensory analysis.”
Final July 25, MT Terranova, carrying 1.4 million liters of commercial gasoline oil, capsized and ultimately submerged off Bataan, killing a crew member.
The spillage unfold as much as the coasts of Manila and close by provinces.
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The Philippine Coast Guard on Tuesday started the preliminary siphoning course of for the commercial gasoline oil within the sunken motor tanker.
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