Former Nuvem MLA Mickky Pacheco on Monday alleged that SGPDA Chairman Wilfred D’Sa is preparing platform for a prominent fish trader allegedly involved in the formalin row to start the SGPDA wholesale fish market during the fishing ban period. Reverting to the letter of the SGPDA chairman to Chief Minister asking for the inspector to check the fish at market, Mickky said, “Wilfred is trying to fool Goans. Nuvem MLA & SGPDA Chairman Wilfred D’Sa has asked the CM to instruct the Directorate of Fisheries to depute an inspector on daily basis from 5 am to 1 pm in SGPDA wholesale fish market to do random checking of fish entering the wholesale market. He also says formalin testing kits will be kept for the public to check the fish purchased by them. Observe the timings that Wilfred has set for testing of formalin – 5 am to 1 pm. By this time the fish trader will sell his formalin-laced fish. “Testing has to be done from 12 am onwards. It’s clear that once the formalin testing process is shown to be in place, Wilfred will arrogantly try to open this market. No testing is going to work,” he alleged. “When the inspector declared the presence of formalin in fish, after the trader bribed the officials, the same fish was later declared as having permissible limits of formalin. Fish from the east coast of India is banned by several States after testing positive for formalin so why allow this fish to be brought to Goa and sold to Goans,” Mickky questioned.