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Alicia Jiménez accompanied the Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Francisco Jódar, on his visit to La Azohía to learn about the traditional fishing style known as the trap that is still practiced at this point in the Bay of Mazarrón, as well as In Cadiz, these being the only two places on the Spanish coast where this technique is carried out.
The mayor of Mazarrón and Francisco Jódar verified the method of work employed by fishermen Mazarron in this area of ​​the coast of Cartagena belonging to the Bay of Mazarron.
The trap is a fishing gear with net, fixed and background, which is used to catch migratory fish such as tunas, mainly with this technique are caught the specimens of the family Scombridae (bonito, melva and albacore), seriola (Lemon fish) or bluefin tuna.
In 2016 the catches of these species through the fishing of the trap in the amounted to 107,150 kilos and generated an economic value of 375.204 euros.
The Almadraba de la Azohía is reflected in the Fishing Yearbook since 1866. This technique generates about 20 direct jobs for six months a year.
During his visit, the Fisheries Minister, Francisco Jódar, stated that "from the regional government we bet on the maintenance and enhancement of this traditional fishing gear as an economic activity on the coast of the Region, which also, due to its history , Is also a relevant attraction, "he explained.
In Spain in the middle of the nineteenth century there were more than thirty almadrabas located in the provinces of Cadiz, Ceuta, Huelva, Almeria, Murcia, Alicante, Formentera, Barcelona and Gerona.
At present almost all have disappeared and are only present in Cadiz and the Region of Murcia.
The causes of its decline are in the lack of catches and its high operating costs.
An art used by Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians
The trap is a very old art, which has the first references to Aristotle, Pliny and Strabo.
It was widely used on the Mediterranean coasts by Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians.
The name of almadraba comes from the Greek voice 'mandrague', which is composed of the words 'mandra', which means park and 'aqua' or water.
It was the Arabs who transformed that name into the current denomination of almadraba, with the meaning of place where it is struck or fought.
The trap is a fishing gear of the type 'buche', is composed of a set of nets, cables, chains, ropes and anchors, which are distributed in five parts: the picture, the cup, the legitimate, the rabera de tierra and The outside rake.
The rabera, like the legitimate one, are net cloths located perpendicular to the coastline that act as a barrier directing the fish towards the picture.
It also has a ground-based facility for storing all the supplies called 'corralón'.
Source: CARM / Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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