Αρχική Ανάπτυξη ΥδατοκαλλιεργειώνΑΡΘΡΟ ΠΡΩΤΟΣχόλιο του χρήστη stelios Leontios (INVE) | 20 Μαΐου 2011, 17:39
  • Σχόλιο του χρήστη 'stelios Leontios (INVE)' | 20 Μαΐου 2011, 17:39

    Dears, It is not surprising me what i read above, actually the "touristic & ecological" approach against the "aquaculture" approach. This is something that has happened in the past and is still happening in some places, all over the "developed" world. What is surprising me, is the extreme positioning of some people that maybe out of ignorence or maybe due to only personal (almost egoistic) believes, are delaying the necessary evolution. This concrete law is one of the best things that can happen for the Greek Aquaculture and directly also for the Greek society. As many other things in Greece must be regulated, must follow certain, well studied with view of the future rules, must be also punished if not followed well. This is what is happening and should have happened already many years ago, with the Greek Aquaculture. This law, stated and applied correctly, is in favor of all social groups, tourists, environmentalists, aquaculture industry, etc. Personally i have been living for almost 20 years in Western Europe and visited Greece as a tourist and as an environment-concience person, i must say that we are masters in exageration and dramatisation. We don't mind that all our waste water of our (ilegal) house by the sea ends up in the same place where we go to swim, but we do mind about the polution from the fish that's cultured in the open sea. Please wake up, aquaculture is not destroying our environment (this is already destroyed by the way by each and every citizen and system in this country), it is trying to save it by regulating and controlling it, as well as by organizing it in a social repecting way. We have in Greece a huge coast line that can embrace both tourism and aquaculture, as long as these are regulated. We have the solid basis to build up tourism and aquaculture 10 times bigger than wat there is today, and this is what we should target. To expand the growth of these two pillars of the Greek economy, we need synergy and regulation among them, not a fight. A fight is destructive and it is never good. Being constructive does not mean that we have to reinvent the wheel, we have to look first of all what is happening in the world around us. I have been working in aquaculture for more than 20 years now and have been to places from Japan to Brazil and from Norway to S.Africa, most of the countries dealing in this field have found the ways to promote/grow/protect/regulate this new industry, side by side with the social aspects of life. Believe me, all these years dealing with Aquaculture, knowing what the fish are fed (as the company i work for, develops, produces and provides the feed to the industry worlwide) and how they are grown (as i visit the fish culture areas), as well as leaving/swimming/snorkling by the same sea with my family, we buy and cook almost every week from the fishshop of the area we live, cultured seabream and seabass, as it is one of the most fresh and healthy diets that Greece can produce (and unfortunately we can not produce many, ....yet). Please visit the FAO website and see that today 50% of the seafood consumed worldwide is coming from Aquaculture, in 2010 we consumed approximately 140 million tons of seafood and 70 million tons was produced by aquaculture, in less than 10 years from now the world will need a minimum of another 40 million tons of aquaculture products per year, in order to fulfill the consumer's demand ! These will not come from Fisheries, as the resources are reducing drastically and for sure not from the land based food chain as this is over exploited. It is proven that the near future food supply of our world will have to come from the non exploited seas and therefore Aquaculture. Thank you for your time and attention. Stelios Leontios, Regional Director Europe, INVE AQUACULTURE.