The Greek coastguard and the European border-management agency, Frontex, on Monday said they had intercepted 234 migrants attempting to cross the Aegean from Turkey and reach the European Union over the weekend.
Frontex stopped 118 migrants and detained the crew of several vessels off the islands of Lesbos and Agathonisi, while the Greek coastguard found another 116 off the port city of Alexandroupoli.
The migrants continue arriving in spite of tougher controls agreed in a deal between the EU and Turkey from March 2016, under which anyone arriving would go through the asylum procedure in so-called hotspots.
However, camps at the hotspots on the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos are overcrowded as the rate of arrivals remains higher than the rate of those whose asylum applications have been approved or rejected.
Under the deal, those whose request for asylum has been denied can be returned to Turkey, while verified refugees are to be redistributed across EU member states.
Turkey, in return, received assistance to maintain the refugee camps.
The deal sought to stem the massive migration wave through the Balkans which brought over one million people in just 10 months of 2015 to 2016.
The countries on the Balkan route sealed their borders to migrants, although they still come.
They now try to sneak through, often paying smugglers and risking their lives.
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