Greek port city declares state of emergency due to mass fish deaths

The measure, which will be valid for one month, is intended to provide state support for cleaning up the coast and rivers around the city, the ANA news agency reported on Saturday. The environmental disaster is a result of flooding caused by heavy rains in the Thessaly region last year. A lake that had been drained decades ago was filled with water and large areas were flooded.

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Since then, the water level in the lake has drastically decreased, and the freshwater fish living there have been transported by rivers towards Volos and finally into the Pagasetic Gulf, where they died in the salt water.

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