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The southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) is a tuna of the family Scombridae found in open southern Hemisphere waters of all the world's oceans mainly between 30°S and 50°S, to nearly 60°S. At up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) and weighing up to 260 kilograms (570 lb), it is among the larger bony fishes .
Mattanza in Sicily, an etching La pêche du thon ("Tuna Fishing", 1782) by Jean-Pierre Houël. The practice of mattanza is an elaborate and age-old fishing technique for trapping and catching Atlantic bluefin tuna that can be traced back to the Phoenicians.
It is a traditional form of fishing practiced mainly in southeastern Spain (Andalusia, Murcia and southern Valencian Community), Morocco and southern Portugal (the Algarve). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Almadrabas have been set from the ports of Cádiz , Chiclana de la Frontera , [ 3 ] Conil de la Frontera , Barbate , Rota , Zahara de los Atunes , La Línea de ...
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Blue Fin Tuna. The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) is a Regional fisheries management organisation [1] and international organization with the purpose of managing the stocks of the critically endangered [2] Southern bluefin tuna. [3] The secretariat is housed in Canberra, Australia. [4]
World War II interrupted fishing and after the war the technical developments in commercial fishing in the North Sea reduced herring and mackerel stocks and led to the disappearance of tunny. [ 1 ] In 2000 a 76-year-old pensioner using a fishing rod for the first time landed the largest tuna caught off the British Isles for nearly 50 years.
Brian Jeffriess AM is the primary spokesperson for Australia's Southern bluefin tuna fishing and aquaculture industry. He lives in Port Lincoln, South Australia and is the chief executive for the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association (formerly known as the Tuna Boat Owners Association).