2 QC vendors nabbed for selling ‘bangus’ from fishkill

MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City health officials on Friday intensified the crackdown on so-called “botchang bangus” as two vendors found to be persistently selling milkfish from a recent fishkill were arrested Friday morning in Balintawak.

City veterinarian Dr. Ana Marie Cabel said the two vendors were previously caught with the prohibited wares and warned that selling the fish would mean criminal charges.

“But we took them after they were so persistent and we found them selling the double dead bangus again this morning,” Cabel told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The city veterinary office seized 200 kilos this morning of the spoiled fish at the Old Samson Road, and some 30 kilos at a raid at the Commonwealth
Market.