“For the last seven or eight years we’ve seen a drought in the catch,” Crespo said as he walked between mountains of net and cable spread about his warehouse in the fishing town of Barbate, on the Costa de la Luz, south of Cadiz. The innovation allows fishermen to scoop up shoals of spawning tuna, transfer them to the 50-metre-wide cages and return to fish until the last is caught.ĭeep-frozen and shipped to Asia, the bulbous carcasses are sold in auction rooms like Tokyo’s Tsukiji market before the red meat is sold for up to $75 per 100 grams when served in the city’s best restaurants.Ĭrespo said he soon felt the impact of tuna ranching on his and other fixed trap nets known as ‘Almadrabas’ - a labyrinth of nets that fishermen have anchored in the shallows of Spain’s south Atlantic coast since pre-Roman times. The ranches - giant underwater cages where freshly caught tuna are fattened on squid and sardines - have revolutionized the industry. Tuna has become a big business throughout the Mediterranean, and the lure of up to $15,000 for the best and biggest fish attracts dozens of new boats to the industry every year - many controlled by Asian and Italian mafias, sources say.įACTBOX: Five facts about threatened bluefin tuna The environmental impact would be catastrophic, she said: “The bluefin is a top predator so the whole ecology of the Mediterranean would be destabilized.” “There are plenty of signs that we might be seeing the start of the collapse,” said Susana Sainz, a fisheries officer with campaign group WWF. Now a system of corralling the fish into “tuna ranches” has combined with a growing tuna fishing fleet to bring stocks dangerously close to collapse, warn scientists from ICCAT - the body established by bluefin fishing countries to monitor the stock.
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