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Figure 48. Images of Turkish paintings showing bluefin tuna fishery in Turkish area, made by unknown artists. The
paintings are made in tempera colours, possibly done between the last part of the XIX century and the first part of XX
century, on older pages, both possibly coming from a Holy books. The image on the left shows a fisherman harpooning
the tunas. Due to the artistic component of these images, it is not sure if they are related to tuna seine fishing, maybe the
same type of “traps” used in ancient times, or if they show a normal “set trap fishery”, as suggested by the presence of
several vessels around the net in the right image.
Figure 49. A tuna spotter in a coastal trap along the north-eastern Adriatic Sea (de Loubeau, 1894).
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