The culmination of the bluefin tuna campaign in Spain has arrived

The purse-seine boats -the most industrial- will start their bluefin tuna fishing season on Thursday, a moment that is considered the beginning of the strong part of the campaign, for which Spain has a quota of 6,093.28 tons. The Spanish bluefin tuna season began exactly in February, for the Canarian fishery fleet, since as it is a migratory species it reaches those waters before and then moves further north; The traps of Cádiz began their work, already in spring, with their “levantás” and their ancient ritual to capture the species, which later reaches the Mediterranean. Spain is the European country that catches the most bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic, and its quota is distributed among purse-seine vessels, tuna traps, vessels from the Canary Islands, live bait boats from the Cantabrian Sea, pole-and-line vessels from the Strait, longliners and other Mediterranean artisanal vessels. According to the MAPA resolution, published this Tuesday in the ...