Warming seas wipe out Greece's mussel harvest | Reuters
4 days ago · Item 1 of 6 Mussel farmer Yiannis Zakalkas, 30, holds a long line with mussels at a farm in the Thermaic Gulf, near Thessaloniki, Greece, October 29, 2024.
Greece's mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas - MSN
A series of heatwaves hit Greece in July, sending sea temperatures in the Thermaic Gulf, its main mussel producing area, above 30 degrees Celsius (86°F) for days - too hot for mussels to survive ...
Greece’s Mussel Industry Struggles Amid Rising Sea Temperatures
2 days ago · Greece-Pieria produces about 13,000 tonnes of mussels each year, but this year there is a 40% drop, making it a disastrous year as mussels become coveted overseas.Credit: Wilson44691, Public Domain. Greece faces a real challenge with its mussel harvest because of climate change. The rise in the temperature of the sea has caused problems in mussel cultivation as at 26-28 degrees the large ...
Greece’s mussel industry struggles amid rising sea temperatures
2 days ago · Greece faces a real challenge with its mussel harvest because of climate change. The rise in the temperature of the sea has caused problems in mussel cultivation as at 26-28 degrees the large mussel dies while the brood survives. Makry Gialos of Pieria is the largest mussel-producing region of the country. It owns approximately 60% of mussel ...
Greece’s mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas
4 days ago · A series of heatwaves hit Greece in July, sending sea temperatures in the Thermaic Gulf, its main mussel producing area, above 30 degrees Celsius (86°F) for days – too hot for mussels to survive. Greece last saw mass mussel deaths in 2021 but scientists forecast that it would not be repeated for another 10 years, said Kostas Koukaras, a ...
Greece’s mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas
3 days ago · Scientists say extreme weather linked to global warming could spell bad news for its aquaculture sector too. A series of heatwaves hit Greece in July, sending sea temperatures in the Thermaic Gulf, its main mussel producing area, above 30 degrees Celsius (86°F) for days — too hot for mussels to survive.
Greece's mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas
4 days ago · A series of heatwaves hit Greece in July, sending sea temperatures in the Thermaic Gulf, its main mussel producing area, above 30 degrees Celsius (86°F) for days - too hot for mussels to survive ...
Greece's mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas, again - MSN
5 days ago · Greek mussel farmers say they've lost most of this year's crop to the warming Aegean Sea, as record temperatures hit mussel harvests in northern Greece for the second time in three years. Ahead of ...
A sea of loss: Pieria mussel farmers face climate devastation
Sep 20, 2024 · A funeral of sorts is taking place at the Kitros Salt Pit in Pieria, northern Greece, as local mussel farmers bury their harvest, lamenting the massive loss of 80% of this year’s yield.
Warmer seas hit Greece’s mussel harvest - Fish Farmer Magazine
1 day ago · One Greek mussel farmer told Reuters that the mussel sector was very close to collapse and is demanding that the government needed to support the sector. Greece’s aquaculture production is currently worth more than £500m and is the third largest in Europe after France and Spain, according to the Hellenic Aquaculture Producers Organization ...