{"id":11696,"date":"2014-05-24T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T08:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2014-05-24T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T08:31:25","slug":"bfar-warns-consumers-of-red-tide-in-bataan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/24\/bfar-warns-consumers-of-red-tide-in-bataan\/","title":{"rendered":"BFAR warns consumers of red tide in Bataan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11730\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tahong-shellfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11730\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tahong-shellfish.jpg\" alt=\"Be careful when eating shellfish from Bataan. ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tahong-shellfish.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tahong-shellfish-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be careful when eating shellfish from Bataan. ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Thursday warned\u00a0consumers against shellfish caught in Bataan peninsula\u2019s coastal waters which\u00a0remained infected by red tide.<\/p>\n<p>Shellfish Bulletin No. 12-2014 lifted the red tide warning only on areas other than the\u00a0Bataan Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Towns of Mariveles, Limay, Orion, Pilar, Balanga, Orani, Abucay and Samal to have\u00a0coastal waters remaining positive for paralytic shellfish poison were specifically named.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll types of shellfish and acetes or alamang gathered and collected from Bataan are\u00a0not safe for human consumption,\u201d BFAR said also reminding consumers to thoroughly\u00a0wash and remove the internal organs of fish, shrimps and crabs caught in any of the\u00a0areas mentioned before cooking.<\/p>\n<p>According to BFAR, red tide is used to describe all events in which the water is\u00a0discolored by high algal biomass or concentration of algae.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the ordinary connotation of red tide, the water discoloration involved may not\u00a0necessarily be red in color but it may also appear in yellow, brown, green, blue or milky\u00a0depending on the organism involved and may also be characterized as harmful or\u00a0harmless.<\/p>\n<p>Red tides are characterized by the existence of harmful algal bloom (HAB) or the\u00a0blooms of toxic and non-toxic algae that causes water discoloration and are dangerous\u00a0due to the algal toxin they contain.<\/p>\n<p>In the Philippines, paralytic shellfish poisoning caused by these algal blooms has\u00a0caused 117 deaths affecting all age group between 1983 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p><em>Data courtesy BFAR Shellfish bulletin posted on BFAR website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Thursday warned\u00a0consumers against shellfish caught in Bataan peninsula\u2019s coastal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,69,95],"tags":[1315,3911],"class_list":["post-11696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-food","category-news-ph","tag-bataan","tag-red-tide","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}