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- The Ambracian Gulf in western Greece — a 2,000-year-old Mediterranean lifeline now labeled "an industrial graveyard" — has been devastated by fish farming, according to The Outlaw Ocean Project.
- The Outlaw Ocean Project assembled an international team of journalists to investigate the aquaculture industry's impact on the protected Greek waterway.
Why it matters: For two millennia the Ambracian Gulf sustained Mediterranean communities and ecosystems; The Outlaw Ocean Project's international investigation now documents its collapse into 'an industrial graveyard,' putting fish farming inside Greece's protected national parks — and the Mediterranean's fisheries — under sustained international journalistic scrutiny.
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