The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Wednesday said there is an estimated income loss amounting to P388 million in Oriental Mindoro due to the oil spill.
"As of April 3, ‘yung sa estimated income losses is around P388.7 million for Oriental Mindoro," Marc Lawrence Romero of BFAR said during the oil spill inter-agency committee meeting at the Department of Justice.
"So isa din ‘yun sa reason kung bakit may fishing ban. So we are still waiting for the rest of the analysis to get the bigger picture kasi ‘yung first batch collected was in the early part of the oil spill,” he said.Meanwhile, Atty. Janice Regoso Pamit of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Pollution Adjudication Board said 92 out of 131 sampling stations still exceeded the water quality guidelines.
"And then after that, it will be formally endorsed to the Pollution Adjudication Board for the adjudication of the administrative penalties,” she added.
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