Goa, Sept. 2 -- The High Court has been told that land in Marna-Siolim, where six cottages and a restaurant now stand, was once a natu ral lagoon connected to the river and part of a sprawl ing mangrove wetland. In an affidavit, for mer National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) scientist Dr Antonio Mas carenhas said the plots bearing survey numbers 318/2, 319/2 and 320/2 were originally a saline water body surrounded by marshes and mangroves. He noted that the Regional Plan 2021 had marked the area as a "fish farm". The affidavit was filed on the Court's direction while hearing a miscellaneous civil application by Mari lyn Agasta Sabrina Judith Soares e Fernandes Gov eia. Since Dr Mascarenhas had signed a site inspec tion report dated Marc...