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Namibia gov't lifts ban on mussels harvesting

Xinhua, March 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has declared mussels from the Walvis Bay and Swakopmund areas fit for consumption, confirmed Ueritjiua Kauaria, Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry on Thursday.

The lift of the ban came after recent re-tests which showed negative results.

the Namibian government decided to close off the Walvis Bay Production Area for mussel harvesting after mussel samples from the production area were confirmed for diarrhetic shellfish poison in January 2017.

The mussels sector generates about half a million Namibian Dollars (about 38,000 U.S. dollars) in revenue per annum. Endit