IBA, Zambales: Zambales Gov. Amor Deloso on Wednesday said dredging and desilting operations at the mouth of the Santo Tomas River bordering the towns of San Felipe and San Narciso are legal and should not have been stopped by authorities.

An inter-agency raiding team led by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), according to Deloso, should have coordinated with the provincial government before they stopped the dredging operations, which resulted in the arrest of 10 foreign crew of vessels used in hauling and loading of sand extracted from the river.

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