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    Almadraba (Andalusian Arabic: المَضْرَٰبَة, romanized: al-maḍraba, lit. 'the place to strike'; Portuguese: almadrava) is an elaborate and ancient technique...
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    front promenade.   Heliópolis Beach (Playa Heliópolis) Torreón Almadraba Beach (Playa Almadraba) Els Terrers Beach Just inland from Benicàssim lies the Desert...
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    Mattanza, literally 'slaughter' or 'killing' in Italian, also known as Almadraba in Spanish and Almadrava in Portuguese, is a traditional tuna fishing...
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    Sidonia traces its descent from Alonso Pérez de Guzmán. Almadraba – the concession on almadrabas (tuna traps along the Mediterranean coast) was one of the...
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    village laid at the foot of the latter. It was also home to a tonnara (or almadraba), one of many scattered along the West coast of Sicily. The tonnara is...
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    amongst other species as bycatch during the traditional fishing practice of Almadraba in addition to the main catch, the far larger Atlantic bluefin tuna. Thought...
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    Phoenician technique for trapping and catching Atlantic bluefin tuna called Almadraba, still used today in Portugal, Spain, Morocco and Italy which uses a maze...
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    cinema, and la Iglesia Del Carmen church where, curiously, tuna (caught in Almadraba traps) were butchered and salted. Also in the town are excellent facilities...
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    landed with almost 16,000 tons in a single year, highlighting the tuna almadraba. As a sardine port it has been, for decades, one of the first in Spain...
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    .. This trap fishery, called tonnara in Italian, madrague in French, almadraba in Spanish, and armação in Portuguese, forms an elaborate maze of nets...
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  • ages, fishing activity provided riches to Tarifa, and an industry of the almadraba around tuna had developed in the early 16th century. In the early 16th...
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    and beyond. Tuna was their main catch and they perfected the ancient almadraba technique dating from Islamic times. The success of the fishing industry...
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    José, Las Negras, Agua Amarga, Isleta del Moro, Rodalquilar, San Miguel, Almadraba de Moteleva, Fernán Pérez, Las Hortichuelas, Pozo de los Frailes, Los...
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    smaller villages (pueblitos) including Cabo de Gata, Almadraba de Monteleva, and La Fabriquila. At Almadraba de Monteleva are the salt works that are still...
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    culture: fried fish (pescaito frito in local dialect), white prawns, almadraba tuna, among others. The Andalusian fishing fleet is Spain's second largest...
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  • origins probably from the Latin word Cetaria (in Greek Ketèia), meaning almadraba (in Italian tonnara); or cetari, meaning fishmongers of big fishes.[citation...
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  • scandalous. In all, RKO lost $200,000 on the picture. Strombolian eruption Almadraba — the tuna-fishing technique documented in the film The War of the Volcanoes...
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    outdoors scenes for movies were recorded here. These were: Almadraba Atuneira (1961) (A Almadraba Atuneira) Hovering Over the Water (1986) Água e Sal (2001)...
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    bonito Little tunny Skipjack tuna Slender tuna Auxis Fishing and fisheries Almadraba US bluefin tuna industry As food Botargo Cakalang fufu Chūtoro Katsuobushi...
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    bonito Little tunny Skipjack tuna Slender tuna Auxis Fishing and fisheries Almadraba US bluefin tuna industry As food Botargo Cakalang fufu Chūtoro Katsuobushi...
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    bonito Little tunny Skipjack tuna Slender tuna Auxis Fishing and fisheries Almadraba US bluefin tuna industry As food Botargo Cakalang fufu Chūtoro Katsuobushi...
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    bonito Little tunny Skipjack tuna Slender tuna Auxis Fishing and fisheries Almadraba US bluefin tuna industry As food Botargo Cakalang fufu Chūtoro Katsuobushi...
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    (4 October 2018). ""Almadraba"". BAM Archive. BAM. Retrieved 4 October 2018. Lutz, Phillip (19 February 2019). "With 'Almadraba' Oscar Peñas is Poet...
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    bonito Little tunny Skipjack tuna Slender tuna Auxis Fishing and fisheries Almadraba US bluefin tuna industry As food Botargo Cakalang fufu Chūtoro Katsuobushi...
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    bonito Little tunny Skipjack tuna Slender tuna Auxis Fishing and fisheries Almadraba US bluefin tuna industry As food Botargo Cakalang fufu Chūtoro Katsuobushi...
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  • is a large canvas (roughly four metres by three metres) it depicts the Almadraba, a traditional form of tuna fishing which involves herding schools of...
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    bonito Little tunny Skipjack tuna Slender tuna Auxis Fishing and fisheries Almadraba US bluefin tuna industry As food Botargo Cakalang fufu Chūtoro Katsuobushi...
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    Located in Barbate and Zahara de los Atunes, Spain, it protected the local Almadraba tuna traps as well as having a wider strategic role. It is known by several...
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    Name Image Description Almadraba Almadraba is an ancient Andalusian way of catching tuna. It is an elaborate way of setting nets in a maze that leads...
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  • From Andalusian Arabic al-māṭana (الْمَاطَنَة) "sledgehammer." almadía almadraba: Tuna fishing in Andalusia and particularly in Cadiz province. From Andalusi...
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