LABUAN: The Labuan Fisheries Department has reminded the people in this duty-free-island to avoid consuming shellfish from mainland Sabah with immediate effect.
Its director Faizal Ibrahim Suhaili said this follows the detection of the red tide phenomenon near Sepanggar waters.
"As the Sabah Department of Fisheries has issued a warning of red tide, this applies in Labuan as well, as Labuan waters is linked to Sabah waters,” he told Bernama on Sunday . "Red tide blooms can last days, weeks, or months and can also change daily due to wind conditions and water currents...onshore winds normally bring it near the shore and offshore winds drive it out to sea.
Its director Azhar Kassim said their Biosecurity Department found the pyrodinium bahamense and margalefidinium polykrikoides cells in one litre of samples to exceed dangerous levels.
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