The bus transfer from Oristano to Cagliari had been organized and already paid for. The banners and megaphones were also ready. The fishermen of Oristano, however, want to believe the promise made this morning by the regional Department of Agriculture. That is, that within the next week the work for the extraordinary maintenance of the ponds will begin.
Then the dredging of the canals to restore the oxygenation of the waters, the lungs of the lagoons. The demonstration outside the headquarters of the department scheduled for tomorrow has therefore been canceled. "This morning the trade associations asked us to cancel the demonstration", explains Antonello Loi, president of the Consorzio pesca di Marceddì, and spokesman for his colleagues from Cabras, Arborea, San Vero Milis and Santa Gusta, "the department has in fact communicated an imminent convocation of the fishermen to define the departure of the intervention. We accept the request, hoping that it is not a joke, it would be the umpteenth. The rise in temperatures and a certain death of fish and shellfish is around the corner".
The fishermen of the ponds have been asking for extraordinary maintenance of the lagoons for a long time. The money is there: 10 million euros. How the Land Reclamation Consortium is ready to intervene, the body to which the Region has entrusted the dredging of the suffering canals. "We are waiting for the call," concludes Loi, "I hope the final one."
