DAGUPAN CITY - An official of the city agriculture office appealed to the public here to be extra-careful in their consumption of shellfishes as the advisory on red tide affeting part of the shoreline in Bani, Pangasinan has not yet been lifted.

City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina was referring to the advisory or bulletin issued by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Department of Agriculture dated April 4 this year showing high leverl of toxicity of samples of shellfishes harvested by fishermen from barangay Wawa, Bani.

The advisory was only for shellfishes, such as mussels, clams, oysters and other similar species harvested from barangay Wawa in Bani, one of the coastal areas of the Lingayen Gulf.

This does not affect shellfishes caught in adjacent Bolinao and Anda town which are the locations of large farms now supplying mussels and other shellfishes for Metro Manila and Baguio.

Molina said in oirder to protect the public, her office is now continuously monitoring the fish market in Dagupan in order to find out where these are coming from.

She clarified that the fishes are not being affected by red tide because when these are being cooked, their intestines are being removed. (PNA)