Thousands of fish dead in Koroneia lake as water levels dropped to 60cm

Thousands of freshwater fish, mostly carp, have been found dead around Lake Koroneia, where the water level has fallen dramatically to just 60-80 cm.

"From 2.80 to three metres, which was the depth of the lake until five or six years ago, we have now reached a few centimetres due to drought and lack of maintenance of the infrastructure that feeds into the water supply in Koroneia," the President of the Management Organisation of Koroneia, Volvi and Halkidiki, Dimitra Bombori, told state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA).

"We have returned to the past difficult times, when a significant reduction in water combined with high temperatures resulted in high fish mortality," Bombori explained.

Technical works carried out in 2012 had helped restore the lake's communication with streams that replenished the lake and the fish population had grown significantly...