Rome, Shawwal 05, 1436, July 21, 2015, SPA -- The sea migrant influx to Italy is stabilizing, the country's top migration official said in a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, according to dpa. Last year, 170,100 people landed on Italian shores from the Mediterranean. Authorities were expecting the number to rise over 200,000 this year. "As of July 21, we had a number of arrivals roughly similar to last year, we are talking of 85,361 persons," Prefect Mario Morcone, head of the migration department in the Interior Ministry, said in the Chamber of Deputies. "The trend will perhaps allow us to stay below our national contingency planning, which we had drawn up fearing that we would go over 200,000 persons. Instead, the trend seems to be in line with last year's," he added. --SPA 14:05 LOCAL TIME 11:05 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w