MAKO’s first Greek deployment: Ghost Farms

Together with our partner Healthy Seas, we will intensify the battle to protect abandoned fish farms, so-called “Ghost Farms” in Greece, and this is clearly necessary. Soon after MAKO’s move, which was successful, she was immediately deployed on her first mission in Greece, in the hunt for Ghost Farms.

We carried out surveys at various locations in Greece, focusing on the west coast, to gain a real-time picture of the situation. We based ourselves on surveys previously conducted by our partner organization OZON, which has worked hard over the past year to scour a vast coastline in Greece for abandoned fish farms and the pollution they have caused to the coastlines.

Unfortunately, but as expected, the pollution is present and large. In the coming months we will start the follow-up to the previous projects Journey to Ithaca (2021) and Return to Ithaca (2022), where we worked to clean up Ghost Farms on a large scale.

Operation Ghost Farms is about to begin! Stay tuned.