The Cagayan Valley regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will be imposing the ban on sale of imported fish and fishery products in local wet markets. Officials also warned fish transporters and dealers to comply with the ban as one of the major priorities of the BFAR national leadership. Lawyer Arsenio Bañares, BFAR’s chief of Fisheries Management Regulatory and Enforcement Division, said Fisheries Administrative Order 195 covers frozen fish products in wet markets such as imported mackerel, bonito, squid, sardines, salmon and salmon head, and pangasius or cream dory.

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