Almadraba


Almadraba in Spanish is a word of Al-Andalus Arabic origin المضربة almaḍraba : 'a place to strike' < Arabic root ضرب 'to strike, hit'. It is an elaborate and age-old Phoenician technique for trapping and catching Atlantic bluefin tuna that was learned and taken to areas such as Iberia during Iberia's Islamic period.
The technique is to trap and catch the tuna when they are crossing between the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean during February to July, on their way to spawn and
until recently, on its return journey, when they come back into the Atlantic Ocean,; the bycatch contains, among others, bullet tuna, little tunny, Atlantic bonito, bigeye tuna and swordfish.
It is a traditional form of tuna fishing or netting fence to catch tuna that is carried out in Italy, Morocco, Portugal and Spain.
A similar technique exists in Sicily known as mattanza, introduced either by the Moors during Sicily's own Islamic period or by the Spanish afterwards.

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