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With a focus on gilt-head sea bream and European sea bass, Greece is known worldwide for its extensive aquaculture and commercial fishing industries. The two main fishing methods used are purse seine (nets resembling a drawstring purse when tightened to surround the fish) and trawler nets, with each vessel removing approximately 3 to 7 tonnes of fish from the sea per day. Onboard the fishing vessels, the fish are left to slowly suffocate to death. The amount of bycatch is high—several tonnes of undesirable dead fish are dropped back into the sea.

With a focus on gilt-head sea bream and European sea bass, Greece is known worldwide for its extensive aquaculture and commercial fishing industries. The main fish auction in the port of Piraeus (the chief sea port of Athens) is the largest in Greece, processing and selling approximately 150 to 200 tonnes of fish daily, of which about 60 to 70 tonnes are from Greek fishing vessels operating in the local seas, about 20 to 30 tonnes are from Greek fish farms, and the remainder are imports.

With a focus on gilt-head sea bream and European sea bass, Greece is known worldwide for its extensive aquaculture and commercial fishing industries. The main fish auction in the port of Piraeus (the chief sea port of Athens) is the largest in Greece, processing and selling approximately 150 to 200 tonnes of fish daily, of which about 60 to 70 tonnes are from Greek fishing vessels operating in the local seas, about 20 to 30 tonnes are from Greek fish farms, and the remainder are imports.

With a focus on gilt-head sea bream and European sea bass, Greece is known worldwide for its extensive aquaculture and commercial fishing industries. The main fish auction in the port of Piraeus (the chief sea port of Athens) is the largest in Greece, processing and selling approximately 150 to 200 tonnes of fish daily, of which about 60 to 70 tonnes are from Greek fishing vessels operating in the local seas, about 20 to 30 tonnes are from Greek fish farms, and the remainder are imports.

With a focus on gilt-head sea bream and European sea bass, Greece is known worldwide for its extensive aquaculture and commercial fishing industries. Fish farms discharge high levels of harmful pollutants, leading to algal blooms and dead zones and contaminating the water supply. They are also breeding grounds for disease, which can spread to native fish populations. Not only are the fish farms in Greek coastal sea and bay ecosystems damaging the local ecosystems, but they are forcing hundreds of thousands of fish inside overcrowded cages, just to be killed en masse using temperature shocks to maintain the fast pace of the production chain.

Dead fish floating in flood waters after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. USA, 2018. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

Dead fish floating in flood waters after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina.

Dead fish floating in flood waters after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina.

One of many dead fish along this stretch of coast in the Gulf of Mexico.

Greenpeace biologist and oil expert Paul Horsman displays his oil-covered hands. Southwest passage of the Mississippi Delta.

A fishmonger beheads a fresh Nile tilapia for a customer at a wet market in Thailand. A large pile of catfish fillets is in the foreground.

Live catfish are displayed for sale on metal trays at a wet market in Thailand. A vendor hoses out an empty tray in the background.

A butcher chops up cuts of pork behind the shop and out of the pouring rain at a wet market in Thailand.

Live climbing perches are displayed for sale in a metal bucket with no water next to a tray of snakehead heads at a wet market in Thailand.

Shoppers browse the stalls at a wet market in Thailand in the early morning. A fish stall displays fish and shellfish.

A fish farmer feeds food pellets to red hybrid tilapia. The fish are raised in floating fish pens at a farm by a river in Thailand.

A dead red hybrid tilapia floats at the surface of a floating pen at a fish farm in Thailand.

Red hybrid tilapia converge at the surface of a floating pen, waiting to be fed at a fish farm in Thailand.

A large number of red hybrid tilapia feed on food pellets, in a crowded floating pen at a fish farm in Thailand. A worker in the background tosses a handful of pellets into the water.

An aerial view of an abandoned floating pen at a river in Thailand. As more fish farms are affected by the economy, a growing number of small farms are closing down.

A large group of red hybrid tilapia wait to be fed in a densely crowded floating pen at a fish farm in Thailand. Overcrowding is common problem in aquaculture, which can affect the health of the fish being raised.

Workers pick up sedated red hybrid tilapia from a floating pen to be weighed and sorted during the harvest at a fish farm in Thailand. Clove oil is a fast acting sedative that is used to calm fish prior to the harvest, making it easier for workers to handle the fish and minimize damage to them from too much struggling.

Densely packed red hybrid tilapia lie motionless in the murky water of a floating pond after being sedated with clove oil during the harvest at a fish farm in Thailand. Clove oil is a fast acting sedative that is used to calm fish prior to the harvest, making it easier for workers to handle the fish and minimize damage to them from too much struggling.

A dead red hybrid tilapia floats on the surface of a floating pen among food pellets at a fish farm by a river in Thailand.

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