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Figure 9. Image of a typical “mattanza”, painted by an anonymous Sicilian artist in Trapany (Sicily) in the XVII
century. This image shows the details of the final harvesting operation, carried out on a traditional set tuna trap;
furthermore, it provides two very well defined images of bluefin tunas and also three different predatory behaviours of
bluefin tunas attacking shoals of small pelagic fish.
Figure 10. Image of another typical “mattanza”, painted by an anonymous Sicilian artist in Trapani (Sicily) in the first
part of the XVIII century on ceramic floor tiles.
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