Pesca - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:45:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Pesca - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Discovery of Terranova and cod fishing by the people of Guipuzcoa https://historylab.es/discovery-of-terranova-and-cod-fishing-by-the-people-of-guipuzcoa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=discovery-of-terranova-and-cod-fishing-by-the-people-of-guipuzcoa Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/descubrimiento-de-terranova-y-de-la-pesca-del-bacalao-por-los-guipuzcoanos/ Document containing information about the discovery of Terranova by the Guipuzcoans as a result of whaling campaigns

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]]> The Treaty of Utrecht prohibited Spanish ships from accessing the Terranova fishing grounds. However, for centuries, this area was one of the most common fishing grounds for the Basques. Whaling had an extraordinary presence in the Basque economy. From the 12th to the 15th century, between the months of October and March, Basque whalers hunted whales in the Cantabrian Sea; however, from the 15th century onwards, the cetaceans began to disappear from the Cantabrian coast, so Basque fishermen had to move to Terranova. These expeditions, which lasted up to eight months and in which cod were also fished, were carried out with boats of fifty or so people.

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]]> View of the Zahara de los Atunes tuna trap from land https://historylab.es/view-of-the-zahara-de-los-atunes-tuna-trap-from-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=view-of-the-zahara-de-los-atunes-tuna-trap-from-land Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/vista-de-la-almadraba-de-zahara-de-los-atunes-desde-tierra/ The image shows a view of the almadraba of Zahara de los Atunes (Cádiz) from land. In the past, tuna traps were an important part of the fishery and offered high economic returns to whoever was in charge of their exploitation. The catches could be kept salted and marketed far from their place of origin.

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]]> The image represents one of the oldest techniques for catching tuna, which takes advantage of the migration of tuna from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and their passage through the Strait of Gibraltar. It consisted of installing a labyrinth of nets in the tuna’s passage, close to the coast, in order to catch them. During the Modern Age, the Duke of Medina Sidonia was in charge of managing the traps in the southern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, after his predecessors received this concession from the king in the 13th century. Among the former was that of Zahara de los Atunes. The House of Medina Sidonia managed the Almadrabas until the beginning of the 19th century. The image shows the moment when the tuna is caught, and its supervision by the ducal authorities.

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