The capture and capture, with a view to marketing and consumption, of bivalves from three production areas on the Algarve coast is temporarily banned due to the presence of marine toxin-producing phytoplankton or toxin levels above regulatory values, announced the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere.
The ban, due to the presence of DSP, toxins that cause diarrheal intoxication, covers, in the Algarve, cockles caught in the Ria Formosa areas, between Faro and Olhão, all species in the coastal zone of Olhão-Faro, and mussels on the coast from Vila Real Santo António to Tavira.
The ban also affects four other areas of the Portuguese coast: coast of Viana, coast of Matosinhos (all bivalve species except white clams), Ria de Aveiro (all bivalve species except for clams) and Lisbon coast to Peniche (mussels).
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