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THE PHILIPPINES

The department of health imposed a ban on gathering and sale of shellfish in Bulacan after it found a stretch of the Manila Bay along the province to be infested with red tide organisms.

Seawater samples showed a considerably low density of red tide organisms in waters off Bulacan, but the Red Tide Task Force does not want to take any chances. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (bfar) banned the harvest and sale of shellfish from Cavite, Las Pi

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