MARGAO
Coastal Salcete and the traditional fishermen are up in arms against the Coastal Zone Management Plan for the village as these plans have shown fishing wards not along the coastal but in the interior of the villages.
The marking of the River Sal as Port Limits also came in for strong opposition at an awareness programme held at Benaulim on Friday evening.
A fisherman from Colva Thomas Rodrigues pointed out that the fishing ward marked in the village is not on the shore, but inside the village around two kms away from the coastal. He further said what was proposed by the village panchayat after consultations with the villagers and stake holders have not been shown in the CZMP. “For whom is this plan prepared? We will show to the government on the day of hearing on March 7”, he added.
Orlim Sarpanch Tamica Da Silva said the CZMP makes no mention of the St Michael Church and have not shown houses on the plan.
The Sarpanch demanded that the government should remove the Port limits from the Plan, further demanding that the plan should also show the old houses.
