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Inside Europe: Greek traditional boats threatened

Heidi Fuller-Love
January 10, 2020

Greece has a boat-building tradition that stretches back at least 5,000 years. But in an effort to stem overfishing in the Mediterranean, the EU pays fishermen to scrap their traditional boats. As a result, hundreds have been destroyed. Heidi Fuller-love reports from the island of Crete on the drive to save Greece's wooden boats.

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