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Israel temporarily bans consuming Mediterranean seafood after oil spill By Share Israel has temporarily banned consumption of seafood from the Mediterranean Sea following an oil spill which yielded volumes of tar along the country’s beaches, and may have contaminated fish and other marine life. Ministry of Health officials were quoted saying the precaution would be in place until samples from the affected marine life are collated and analyzed by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Times of Israel reported. The Mediterranean Sea, which is one of the leading fish production areas in Israel, accounts for nearly 6 percent of the country’s capture fish, with the inland fisheries producing nearly 2 percent, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Other fishing areas in the country include the Red Sea and Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret).

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