The Gârla Mare – Vrata area is a landscape almost unknown to the common man, except for the residents there. Dozens of woodpeckers, coots, storks and herons look for food and nesting here in the spring. And the water lilies and the reeds could fool you into thinking, for a moment, that you are in the Danube Delta.
But the uniqueness of the area, located at the other end of Romania from the river’s delta into the sea, does not reach its true potential. Here, in the 80s, a fish farm was built which did nothing but interrupt the direct connection of the Gârla Mare wetland with the Danube. We are talking about fishing ponds that have been protected from flooding by the construction of defense levees.