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PUERTO PRINCESA CITY: An attempt to break the 1.7-kilometer long
beef grill put up by Uruguay, which currently holds the title of
putting up the longest grill in the Guinness Book of World
Records, Puerto Princesa City will host “the longest seafood grill
on June 23, the highlight of the Palawan provincial government’s
celebration of “Baragatan 2008.”
Chefs, food enthusiasts, members of civic,
business and non-government organizations, representatives from the
23 municipal governments that comprise Palawan, and the people of
Puerto Princesa will gather in a three-kilometer long seafood grill
along Rizal Avenue, the city’s main thoroughfare, to cook and
feast on some eight tons of reef and deep-sea fishes like sea bass,
surgeon fish, mackerel, yellow fin, big-eyed tuna, swordfish, squid,
scuttle-fish, octopus, lobster, crabs, and seashells.
Puerto Princesa, in particular and Palawan, in
general, are the biggest suppliers of seafood and marine products in
Metro Manila, supplying about 60 percent of the latter’s fish
needs. This is based on the records of Deparment of
Agriculture-Bureau of Aquatic Resources.
“This is indeed a very appropriate celebration
to highlight the richness of our marine resources. We invite our
people to participate in this wholesome event. We hope that this
happy occasion also brings into focus the primordial need to protect
our seas from all forms of destructive methods of harvest so that we
will always be blessed with an abundance of fish and various kinds
of seafood,” Mayor Edward Hagedorn of Puerto Princesa City said.
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