Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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
aktaia.org/en/what-is-poay
Research on floating marine debris in Northern Chilean Patagonia
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X21004069?via=ihub
NOAA: What is ghost fishing?
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ghostfishing.html
Ghost farms across the world
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-chile-to-greece-ghost-gear-from-fish-farms-haunts-the-seas
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.
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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
aktaia.org/en/what-is-poay
Research on floating marine debris in Northern Chilean Patagonia
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X21004069?via=ihub
NOAA: What is ghost fishing?
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ghostfishing.html
Ghost farms across the world
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-chile-to-greece-ghost-gear-from-fish-farms-haunts-the-seas
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: tiktok.com/@dw_planeta?
