The ghost farms choking Greece’s coastline [QSSwlFwrQN5]
Greece’s coastline is dotted with abandoned aquaculture sites. The giant rings and other decaying infrastructure are poisoning the sea and local economy with microplastic and huge plastic waste. We accompanied a Greek NGO trying to banish these ghost farms. #PlanetA #fishfarming #pollution #greece Credits: Reporter: Adam Baheej Adada Camera: Manuel Vering Supervising Editors: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer, Michael Trobridge Video Editing and Animation: Adam Baheej Adada Factcheck: Alexander Paquet Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Chapters: 00:00 The mystery rings 01:00 Visiting the farm 02:35 A coastline full of plastic 05:21 Diving in 07:07 The lawsuit 08:24 A growing industry 09:37 The legacy Read more: AKTAIA (NGO): Planned expansion of fish farming in Greece Research on floating marine debris in Northern Chilean Patagonia NOAA: What is ghost fishing? Ghost farms across the world We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. Follow Planet A on TikTok: