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observer from ICCAT to monitor the transferal of tuna from tonnara to sea cage.

Staff and students from the University of Cagliari joined this motley gang to sample

and tag tuna to generate data for ICCAT. Sharon, an ocean lawyer, arrived from the

USA for a second year, this time to write a piece for the National Geographic blog.

And then there was me, a PhD candidate who travelled some 14000 kilometers by

plane, bus and boat to undertake an ethnographic study of local manifestations of a

tuna sustainability crisis.

Fig. 4.1 Panel of judges at the Giro di Tonno festival 2013. Image by author.

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