Qala Mayor Paul Buttigieg has welcomed the decision not to place a tuna farm on a proposed site located approximately 4.6km from Qala point.

Writing on Facebook, Buttigieg said that he “was worried that this would have been detrimental to our environment especially for those who enjoy the bays of Hondoq, iz-Zriezaq, ta’ Bemberin, and the other bathing places we have in Qala.”

In January last year, the Council voiced its “grave concerns and misgivings” as a local council, about the “hazard to the bathing water quality of Gozo that the proposed new location of the North aquaculture Zone (NAZ) represents.”

The Qala Local Council put forward their argument, together with a full technical report prepared by its commissioned expert Prof. Alan Deidun, which also offered alternative sites and recommendations.

Mayor Buttigieg expressed his sincere thanks to Profs Alan Deidun. “I am convinced that the report he prepared was part of the final decision in favour of Qala,” he added.

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