Saving Poros
Greece has launched a national plan for the expansion of intensive fish farming.
Saving Poros
ORGANISED BY KATHETI ANDRAUCH FOUNDATION
IN GREECE
Greece has launched a national plan for the expansion of intensive fish farming. With this plan, production will multiply, and, of course, so will organic waste and its impact.
Poros is one of the 25 locations included in this plan and it will affect their most pristine locations and their touristic industry, which currently employs 80% of the population. The fish farming industry, however, employs only 15 people out of 4000 inhabitants.
The plan in Poros is to expand the areas for fish farms up to 28 times the current size! It will occupy 25% of the whole island and after the expansion an average of 16 TONS of organic waste will be released into the ocean EVERY DAY.
The people of Poros are campaigning against these plans, led by the Katheti and Rauch Foundation. They made a documentary and organised a petition to stop this expansion.