The city has subsequently declared a state emergency, allowing funds and resources to be released to speed up the cleaning of the Pagasetic Gulf port.
It is the second environmental catastrophe to hit the port of Volos, after floods hit the Thessaly region last year.
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The port city of Volos in central Greece declared a state emergency following an inundation of dead fish that local residents say could threaten their livelihoods, the state news agency announced Saturday.
The month-long emergency declaration issued by the climate ministry's secretary general of civil protection, Vassilis Papageorgiou, will inject funding and resources to speed up the cleaning of the Pagasetic Gulf port where tons of dead fish have piled up along the coast and in rivers, according to Athens News Agency.
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