PRESS RELEASE — The Healthy Seas Foundation has completed the clean-up of an abandoned mussel farm in Salamina, near Athens, removing 36.06 tons of marine litter from the sea and coastline. The project was carried out with the support of Hyundai Motor Europe and in collaboration with Ghost Diving volunteers, IGMAR Group, OZON NGO, DOTANK Plus (as impact strategy and project development advisor) and other local stakeholders, commissioned by the Decentralized Administration of Attica and under the auspices of the Municipality of Salamina.
The Salamina project is the sixth abandoned aquaculture site cleaned by Healthy Seas since the foundation began addressing the issue of “ghost farms” in 2021. It also represents a new type of challenge: unlike previous sites, which were mainly abandoned fish farms with floating rings and nets, this was an abandoned mussel farm, with different infrastructure and different types of debris…
Source: Healthy Seas Foundation
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