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Mattanza
Tuna factory of Favignana
Tuna factory of Capo Passero
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Only the materials used to build networks and floats, and the use of motors in boats, the tuna differ today from those who were let down five, six or seven hundred years ago. As has been the fishing technique, the same gestures and chants of mattanze, when tuna are brought to the surface and issati with long hooks on barges that keep the names secular, "Vasceddi", "Varcazze", "Parascarmi".
The massacre is the final phase of tuna that is practiced with the tuna, a complex network that drops into the sea towards the beginning of May and will remain until June. It is divided into rooms that are arranged in a row and communicate with each other by means of gates, also formed from pieces of the network.
The tuna repeating year after year the same path ends up being inside the rooms. When Rais (the head of tuna) believes that the number of tuna this is sufficient, and if the weather conditions are favorable, tuna are "induced" to enter the room where the dead remain trapped. The tonnarotti, that the boats are arranged along the four sides of the room, under the command of Rais pulling on the network.
The tuna as they are lacking water is struggling, urtano violently among themselves, are injured. When I now expect them exhausted "crocchi", the murderous hooks of tonnarotti mounted on the rods, which are used for hooking the fish and issarli on boats.
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