Mattanza (it.) is the traditional Thunfischjagd before the coasts Siziliens and Sardiniens.

Starting from March the pulls by the road of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean, in order to visit their In straits those drive Fischer starting from May by-pulling into a system of nets, which form different chambers. Thunfi becomes by the chambers, which are pulled together ever more, until guided into the internal chamber (Cammera della Morte = death chamber), from which they are then lifted with Enterhaken on the Fischerboote. The caught Thunfisch (ital. "tonno") ashore directly in the "Tonnara" one processes.

The catch method was introduced by the Liguriern from Tabarka (Tunesien). The yields this catch method constantly sink by the overfishing of the existence, so that the Mattanza is today rather a routistic event.

Admits is the Mattanza between Trapani on Sicilies and the island Favignana, as well as from Carloforte and the Isola di the S. Pietro in the southwest Sardiniens.

Literature

• Theresa Maggio: Mattanza, love, death and the sea - a sizillianisches ritual. 2001, ISBN 3828450369

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