Thousands of dead fish blanket stream in Greece

Thousands of dead fish blanket stream in Greece

Drone footage showed a stream in Volos, Greece blanketed with dead fish as clean-up efforts were underway on Friday (August 30).

An excavator was on the riverbank to load fish carcasses into a dump truck, while a group of workers set up a net along the stream to capture the dead fish.

Greek authorities have started collecting hundreds of thousands of dead fish that poured into a tourist port in the central city of Volos this week after being displaced from their usual freshwater habitats during flooding last year.

The floating carcasses created a silvery blanket across the port and a stench that alarmed residents and authorities who raced to scoop them up before the odor reached nearby restaurants and hotels.

The fish were swept into the Pagasetic Gulf by receding flood waters from Storm Daniel, dying immediately upon contact with the saltwater.

Storm Daniel, the worst storm ever recorded in the country, flooded 35,000 acres near Lake Karla in the Thessaly plain last year, wiping out homes, crops, irrigation systems, and flood control channels.

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