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Figure 17. The largest engraving available in the XVIII century about the tuna trap fishery: the harvesting of bluefin
tuna in the set trap in the Gulf of Bandol. This engraving was made in 1760, after the original painting by Joseph Vernet
in 1754, by the famous engravers Charles-Nicolas Cochin and Jacques Philippe Le Bas and included in the series “Les
Ports de France” (1760-1767).
Figure 18. Two different types of set tuna traps used in Toulon (upper figure) and in Bandol (lower figure), along the
Mediterranean coast of France in the XVIII century (Panckoucke, 1793).
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