Spanish heatwave kills mussels in Ebro Delta farms Former "black goldmine" wrecked by heat, farmer says Shellfish producers seek solutions in deeper, cooler waters EBRO DELTA, Spain, Sept 29 (Thomson ...

THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) - When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as ...

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Faced with rising Black Sea temperatures that suffocate his mussels, Bulgarian farmer Nayden Stanev has been forced to change his ways -- shifting his seeding schedule and harvesting at cooler depths.

"There's nothing left here," sighs Javier Franch as he shakes the heavy rope of mussels he's just pulled to the surface in northeastern Spain. They are all dead. With the country hit by a long and ...

As bad as it is for Bulgaria's mussel farmers, their peers in the Mediterranean Sea have had to deal with even higher water temperatures. "We are better off," Stanev told AFP. Though the Balkan EU ...