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Reunion in order to estimate the impact of the project of the offshore port of Venice on the activity of the peach
the regional city council member Manzato has convened the crisis unit
May 24, 2013
The city council member to the Peach of the Region of Veneto, Franco Manzato, has announced the convocation for the next week of the unit of crisis of the peach in order to face the issue of the project of the offshore port of Venice, work that is introduced at the end of 2010 from the Harbour Authority of the lagoon port and that it previews the construction of a terminal in deep waters to eight miles from the coast in order to allow the landing place of portacontenitori ships and tankers of great dimensions and elevated draught ( on 23 September 2010).
"The objective - it has anticipated the city council member - is that to verify the modalities and the times for protecting the activity of fishing in our sea in relation to the effects that on the activity can cause to the realization and the exercise of a new great infrastructure offshore which took into consideration the lacked subscription the protocol already which drafted from the institutions and the associations involved in the project".
"For how much I regard me - he has specified Manzato - I am with the fishermen and with they I am decided to guarantee the maximum control and rigor in the realization of the work, in order to avoid that he records negatively and he impoverish the ittiche resources. We want to have sure and in any case right answers from the Harbour Authority and the Magistrate to Waters: the signature of the protocol would be a concrete step in such direction. If this did not happen and the fishermen decided to manifest in order to support own interests, that they coincide with those of the fishing tradition of the regional economy - has concluded the city council member - will find me to their flank".
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