Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Assets brand. INQUIRER FILES
MANILA, Philippines — No traces of oil and chemical substances have been present in samples of fish and shellfish in seven areas surrounding Manila Bay even after the gasoline spillage attributable to a sunken motor tanker.
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Assets (BFAR) mentioned 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, performed confirmed that each one samples have been unfavourable for traces of oil and grease.
“Based mostly 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 mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
Alternatively, 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 economic gasoline oil within the sunken motor tanker.