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Article on TVXS on the sustainability of aquaculture in Greece!

Article on TVXS on the sustainability of aquaculture in Greece!

by Kleopatra Delaveri / Wednesday, 16 October 2019 / Published in News

“In the 1990s, fish farming in Greece began with European subsidies. The big companies that went on the stock market survived, the small ones closed. But those who survived went bankrupt and ended up in banks and from there to foreign funds that invested in intensive aquaculture, but without a legal framework that puts strict conditions on it. ” protection, however, leaves considerable room for each Member State to handle the matter as it thinks fit.

“So they started out wrong. Of course, the islands would have to fish, but on a small and sustainable scale. International experience says that there are good cases in both Scotland and Italy where they have made sustainable fish farming. Greece has not decided whether it wants to make fish farming sustainable with a clean environment, clean food and therefore more quality fish. “

 

Fish farms: Questions about health and the environment at the bottom.

Is aquaculture another development dilemma? The question is, should we choose between destroying our environment and our health in order to increase the production of large multinational fish daily? Finally, the ecological catastrophe in our country is irreversible and what should be done? Why does Greece ultimately produce cheap and poor quality fish while having the natural wealth to support its production of good quality fish? Tvxs.gr is continuing its research and is seeking expert answers.

Environmental studies of monkeys, black seabirds, harmful fish

With the legal adventure of fisherman Christos Loverdos Stelakatou, presented by Tvxs.gr a ​​few days ago, an extremely serious issue has come to the fore that has been of concern to environmentalists, scientists, environmental groups and active citizens for decades. The impact of intensive aquaculture on our health and the environment.

Fish farming is the fastest growing food industry in the world, it has intensified the exploitation of fish, and has led to the large-scale privatization of the seas. According to press reports, we have two million tonnes of production (sea bass, sea bream, sea bass, mullet, trout, tongue, salmon) in the EU alone, generating billions of dollars in multinationals. Over-naturalization leaves behind the black seabed, disintegrated marine ecosystem and brings unhealthy fish to our dishes. What is happening in Greece?

The auspicious legal framework, the state’s inability or indifference to scrutiny, the uncontrolled use of formulas and antibiotics, often bring to our plate food, infused with carcinogens, and destroy our seabed and fauna in a large area around them. where the necessary measures are not taken.

 

Adding to this is the revelation by the director of the Maritime Institute of the Anastasia Milipus Anastasia on environmental studies. “We often find that there are environmental studies of copy paste. That is, they take the study done on the A island, present it as a study done on the B island. It is the same and indispensable. They had once forgotten to erase the name of the first island. What does this mean; Apparently there was never a study for the B island, “says A. Miliou at tvxs.gr. “The authorities say everything is fine. That the environmental conditions are perfect and that they are something crazy ecologists overdo. “

Adding to this is the revelation by the director of the Maritime Institute of Anastasia Milipus Anastasia on environmental studies. “We often find that there are environmental studies of copy paste. That is, they take the study on the A island, present it as a study on the B island. It is the same and indispensable. They had once forgotten to erase the name of the first island. What does this mean; Apparently there was never a study for the B island, “says A. Miliou at tvxs.gr.” The authorities say everything is fine. That the environmental conditions are perfect and that they are something crazy ecologists overdo. “

“In areas where we did research, we found incredible things. Where it was written that there is no Posidonia (protected sea meadow above which cages are forbidden to be installed), this map is cakey. It was the investor’s obligation to do special study. They put pods over meadows which were destroyed. We sampled the bottom and found large, dead rhizomes from the Posidonia marine meadows, which were under a thick layer of mud. ”

The history of arbitrariness that makes us export cheap fish of poor quality

“In the 1990s, fish farming in Greece began with European subsidies. The big companies that went on the stock market survived, the small ones closed. But those who survived went bankrupt and ended up in banks and from there to foreign funds that invested in intensive aquaculture, but without a legal framework that puts strict conditions on it. ” protection, however, leaves considerable room for each Member State to handle the matter as it thinks fit.

 

«Ára, xekínisan láthos. Tha éprepe fysiká sta nisiá na kalliergoúntai psária, allá se mikrí kai viósimi klímaka. I diethnís empeiría léei óti ypárchoun kalés periptóseis kai sti Skótia kai stin Italía ópou ékanan viósimi ichthyokalliérgeia. I Elláda den échei apofasísei an thélei na kánei ichthyokalliérgeia viósimi me katharó perivállon, katharí trofí kai ára pio poiotikó psári». I An. Milioú exigeí, pos éna schédio me afstiró plaísio prostasías tou perivállontos, tha apédide perissótero kédros kathós: «…Tha boroúsame na échoume pio afstiroús órous kai na échoume kalýtero kai akrivótero psári, na min antagonizómaste to ftinó tis Tourkías. Échoun chamilósei tin timí pólisis sta 2.5 evró to kiló. I kalí monáda xodévei gia parádeigma 5 evró to kiló, ára den boreí na poulísei tóso fthiná. Échei na kánei kai me ton topikó antagonismó kai me ton antagonismó me tin Tourkía. Boroúme na échoume prostasía sto perivállon kai exagogí kaloú poiotikoú psarioú. Arkeí na stochéfsoume ekeí». Sychná ómos oi proüpothéseis gia poiotikó psári kai mikróteri epémvasi sto perivállon, den symféroun tis etaireíes. «Prépei ta klouviá na eínai se vathiá nerá me révmata, óste na mi molýnetai o vythós apó ta perittómata kai fysiká na ypárchoun ligótera psária se káthe klouví. Gia tis etaireíes eínai ligótero dapaniró na eínai sta richá, stis aktés. étsi échoume megalýteri katastrofí. Échoun pápsei pléon periochés na eínai touristikés exaitías tis kalliérgeias pou échei afísei píso tis nekrés periochés». Aftós eínai kai o lógos pou energoí polítes échoun antidrásei sti diárkeia ton teleftaíon 30 chrónon polý éntona, me diamartyríes, ypomnímata stis archés kai thalássies diadilóseis.
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“So they started out wrong. Of course, the islands would have to fish, but on a small and sustainable scale. International experience says there are good cases in both Scotland and Italy where they have done sustainable fish farming. Greece has not decided whether it wants to make fish farming sustainable with a clean environment, clean food and therefore more quality fish. ”

Ann Milieu explains that a project with a rigorous environmental framework would yield more cedar because: “… We could have stricter terms and better and more expensive fish, not compete with cheap Turkey. They have lowered the sale price to 2.5 euros per kilo. A good unit costs, for example, 5 euros per kilo, so it can’t sell as cheaply. It has to do with both local competition and competition with Turkey. We can have environmental protection and export good quality fish. We just have to aim there. ”

But often the conditions for quality fish and less environmental interference do not suit companies. “The cages must be in deep water with streams so that the bottom does not become contaminated with the droppings and of course there are fewer fish in each cage. For companies it is less expensive to be in the shallows, on the coast. so we have greater destruction. Areas are no longer touristy because of the crop that has left dead areas behind. ” This is why active citizens have reacted very vigorously over the last 30 years, with protests, letters to the authorities and demonstrations at sea.

 

“Yes, I eat fish from good units”

Miliou says she eats fish from a farm she knows adheres to certain conditions. Tvxs.gr will do the research and recommend units that do not use over-the-top tactics from which you can eat fearless fish. It is worth noting, however, that there are many activist environmentalists who do not believe in “good practice” solutions for smaller units.

This view is embossed in a report entitled “Fish Farming – A Heavy Industry Hidden in Cloudy Water” (Apatris Journal). “But capitalism and the growing accumulation of profits do not go hand in hand with the ‘small’, profitable aquaculture cannot be harmless, and the issue does not disappear when transferred elsewhere, as it concerns our broader relationship with the planet and other living things. beings living in him. In a system where land, people, and other animals are considered consumables, objectification, exploitation, power logic, the imposition of what they may consider inferior, either in the form of direct violence or in the form of consumption, are just the enemy we are. “

 

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