Photo Story – Almadraba (Spain)

Several fisherman take action in the ‘levanta’ or raise of the net as they perform the traditional tuna fishing art called ‘almadraba’ at sea near the coast in Barbate, Cadiz, southern Spain, 09 June 2019.

The ‘almadraba’ fishing art has been used in the region since Phoenician times 3,000 years ago. Fishermen work for two months to place the ‘almadraba’, a labyrinth of nets in which the tuna fish get trapped as they migrate from the Atlantic ocean into the Mediterranean sea. When the fishing season starts fishermen travel on boats to where the ‘almadraba’ is placed and raise the nets in which the fish are tangled in order to catch them one by one.

EPA-EFE/Roman Rios

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