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Figure 34. “Ex voto” made by the tuna fishermen Francesco Manca in 1818, for acknowledging his lucky rescue after
an accident occurred in the tuna trap of Formica (Egadi Isles, W. Sicily), hold in Pitre`s Museum in Palermo (Sarà,
1998).
Figure 35. Image of a tuna trap in the Egadi Isles, showing the transport of a tuna. Etching by M. Reinhardt (1852).
Figure 36. Image of the first bluefin tuna caught at the beginning of the fishing season (May) in Palermo and carried
around the area close to the harbour in a procession (etching by M. Durand-Broger, Le Monde Illustrée, 1861).
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