Favignana Island. Establishment
Florio. 22.8.15. Paint from the famous artist Enzo DI Franco about th “Mattanza”. The establishment was the most large tuna fishery in the Mediterranean, where they were fomosa “Mattanza”. La Mattanza is a technique of bluefin tuna fishing that uses a very unique sitema of complex networks. Sicily was held in the Tonnara di Favignana in 2007 the last mattanza. Today has been banned because considered unprofitable and brutal. Fishermen complain that tuna no more come to lay their eggs in this sea cause wrong exploitation of fisheries.