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In his 1979 Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm, the Greek poet Odysseus Elytis declared: “If you deconstruct Greece, you will be left with an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat”. On the more traditional Aegean islands children grow up in and on the sea, playing in the luminous light and going out in fishing boats as soon as they can walk. In Leros, the islanders’ relationship with the sea means far more than simply employment or survival:
It is an entire way of life. Our personnel, all of whom come from traditional fishing families on the island, have a deep love and respect for the sea and an instinctive understanding of how to raise healthy fish. They have also embraced and absorbed all the new technological and scientific advances in fish farming, which they have combined with generations of wisdom, tradition and ingenuity to produce a new model for healthy and sustainable aquaculture.