It is the second time in three years that record sea temperatures have hit the mussel harvest in northern Greece, where farmers said they saw a 90% drop in the 2024 catch. Next year will be a dud too, Zakalkas said, because all the seed for the coming season also perished.

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Warming seas wipe out Greece's mussel harvest

Farmers said they saw a 90% drop in the 2024 mussel harvest due to record sea temperatures.

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THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) -     When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as they should be at harvest time but were instead filled with cracked, empty shells.  Read full story

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Greece's mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas

THERMAIC GULF, Greece - When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as they should be at harvest time but were instead filled with cracked, empty shells.

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Klimakrise: Griechische Muschelzucht fast abgestorben

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Climate crisis: Greek mussel farming almost extinct

It is the second time in three years that record sea temperatures have hit the mussel harvest in northern Greece, where farmers said they saw a 90% dr

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By Alexandros Avramidis THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) –     When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as they should be at harvest time but were instead filled with cracked, empty shells. It is the second time in three years that record sea temperatures have hit the mussel harvest in northern Greece, where farmers said they s…

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Greece’s mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas

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 the United Nations climate summit known as COP29, experts are urging governments to support food producers in tackling climate-related costs, with one biologist warning that Greece's mussel industry is on the brink of collapse. Alice Rizzo reports.

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Greece’s mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas, again

Record water temperatures leave cracked, empty shells for second time in three years

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