For Dimitris Kaleantopoulos, the mud is most disconcerting. When he sets out in his fishing boat, the waters of the Aegean Sea are clear enough for him to see quite a ways down. He says that for large patches of the shallow waters that encircle his village on the Greek island of Evia, where there were once meadows of wavering sea grass and schools of minute silver fish, there is now a thick layer of sludge. “It’s a quagmire,” he said.

Kaleantopoulos and a few of his neighbors assert the muck is proof of the myriad forms of environmental destruction wrought by the nearby fish farm. A group of residents from Porto Lafia and nearby Agio Irini have strung up a banner by the beach which states: “No more fish farms, we want clean seas.”

Several of these residents have brought a petition before

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