BFAR: No ban on eating fresh fish in Batanes
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TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — It was premature to put a ban on eating fresh fish from Batanes merely due to the fear of possible contamination from nuclear radiation from Japan, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) here said yesterday.
According to Dr. Jovita Ayson, BFAR regional director, the country, even the northernmost province of Batanes, was too far for the fish there to be directly affected by the radiation from the damaged nuclear reactor in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110406nat6.html
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