Dolphins spotted near Old Fortress

CORFU. A moment of beauty, in the sea that we silently pollute and destroy.
Beneath the veil of the sea, in the Inner Corfu Bay, from the Northern to the Southern Strait of Corfu, a world is dying and disappearing forever.
Our children and grandchildren will never know seals, seahorses, groupers, cod, fan mussels, large crabs, or leerfish — no matter how hard they try, no matter how much they fish…
Overfishing.
Trawlers scraping the seabed and destroying everything in their path.
Streams filled with toxic liquids and waste.
Illegal car dismantling operations with no oversight, leading to the death of the sea.
And along with them: overtourism, pollution, and inaction.
A political authority that has remained silent, covered things up, and been indifferent for decades.
And while species vanish, professional coastal fishermen are scapegoated, even the conscientious hobbyist who, with a single hook, witnesses daily the collapse of biodiversity. Only those of us who are in the sea can see the dramatic decline.
Those of us who fish — not for profit, but for life; to find ourselves in the embrace of the peace the sea offers.
Corfu Old Fortress — dolphins in a sea that does not speak!
In a sea we must speak for.
In a sea that has raised generations upon generations of Greeks!
PHOTO-ARTICLE by Petros Lavranos, President of the Harbours Cultural, Environmental and Beautification Association