Continental Tuna Fishing Facilities between Liberal Italy and Fascism

Abstract

Tuna fishing in Italy has long been identified with the centuries-old activity of the great traps of Sicily and Sardinia. Yet, along the continental coasts, many plants have also operated, which, despite the most modest results, have played an important role in the coastal and inland populations. Some aspects of the history of these minor peaches are presented here through, above all, some fundamental contributions that appeared in the institutional and scientific field between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the 1930.