Dasol preserves env’t to protect its salt industry
Mayor Noel Nacar said giving permission
to miners and fish cage operators will only exploit the town’s natural
resources and would affect the quality of its premier product which is salt.
Dasol’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan
(CLUP) has been passed and approved by the Sangguniang Bayan. The CLUP stresses
zero mining and zero fish cage operation in the town.
“Kapag pinayagan namin na makapasok sila
(miners and fish cage operators), masisira ang industriya namin ng asin. Sino
ang makikinabang, mga mamamayan ng Dasol o mga outsiders? , “ Nacar said during
the Kapisanan ng mga Brod- kaster sa Pilipinas (KBP) Forum held at the
Philippine Information Agency (PIA) last Thursday.
About six barangays of Dasol are into the
salt industry. One family in these barangays tends to at least 30 salt beds.
“One salt bed can produce 2.5 big cans of harvested salt,” said Nacar.
Dasol produces two kinds of salt -- the
fine salt and the solar or rock salt. By ‘solar’ is meant the salt that is
dried or ‘cooked’ under the sun; while fine salt is cooked in a big ‘banga’ under
wood fire.
Dasolenians also produce bagoong and
boneless fish in bottles. “Dasol Bay is clean and unpolluted. We will not
allow non-environment-friendly businesses to thrive and destroy our natural
resource and the townfolks’ main industry,” Nacar said.
The name of Pangasinan province
originated from the words ’panagasinan’ meaning ‘where salt is made.’
(VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO / PIA1-Pangasinan)
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