It is Agathonisi. And it’s Greek. And we all know the visions of those opposite for the small island of the Dodecanese. Its inhabitants Agathonisiou engaged in agriculture, fishing and animal husbandry and with the support of the Agricultural Cooperative.

Also, as fishermen in the fish farming units operating on the island. Some work as employees in the island’s services. In recent years, with the development of tourism, a small tourist infrastructure has been created and small units of rented rooms with approximately 120 beds have been erected.

In the censuses of the last decades, a decrease in the population is observed, with the exception of the last one, where there is a small increase compared to the previous ones. oblivion now, 259 based on 2021 census.

There are three settlements in Agathonisi: Megalo Chorio, Mikro Chorio and Agios Georgios. Megalo Chorio is the largest and oldest settlement of the island, invisible from the sea (as it was built long ago to protect the inhabitants from pirate raids). Its architectural peculiarity is the stone wall around the houses with large doors – entrances to the settlement. Megalo Chorio currently has around 120 inhabitants, while the other two settlements, Mikro Chorio and Agios Georgios, which is also the main port of the island, only have 15 inhabitants each.

The area of ​​Katholikos in N.E. it hosts fish farms and at the same time is a fishing refuge as a natural harbor.

These are from the short description of Agathonisios!

According to skyrodos.gr, the situation is changing and the residents are leaving! The fish farms that support families, are under-functioning because the fish that go for sale, go almost … alone, since there are no means of transport! There are no means of transport. The only thing that gave life to the island was this unit.

As one worker there says, “we all leave, I come to Rhodes, my brother to Patmos, the other children to the other islands”.

He emphasizes in a letter of despair, how they became immigrants in order to survive seeing the responsible minister still cleaning his bathrooms and the county deputies making the residents leave!

“You are driving us out of our place”, emphasizes the worker in Fish Farms, underlining that with the government’s obsession with supporting a bankrupt company, Agathonisi was left without transport, emptying it!

We are leaving, he says, because of the island policy that is emptying Agathonisi!

The issue was put to questions in Parliament, without response or finding a solution.

For national reasons, incentives should be given and in fact with the application of all the Insularity, which are even Constitutionally protected incentives for the Hellenism of our islands to survive…