Once again, the old monthly magazine of the Italian Touring Club 'The Streets of Italy' testifies on REPORTAGESICILIA aspects of Sicilian culture lost forever.
It 's the case of a report published in June 1947, and related to tuna fishing in the historical trap of Scopello, Castellammare del Golfo, and between the Zingaro Reserve, along the Tyrrhenian coast of Sicily.
Today, the trap of Scopello is one of the most famous tourist attractions to the general public, also because of the setting, between its stacks, an episode of the television Rai Inspector Montalbano series, the exploitation for filming and for the wedding reception is now the main business of the current owners of the entire product.
In the past decades, this secluded corner of the island was a site for the most unknown to many travelers, so that it has been reported between the 'strange places' in Sicily in a guide designed by Matthew Collura, previously , the site was described in a study by Rosario La Duca.
Historically, the trap of Scopello is mentioned in documents of 1312 and 1421.
For centuries, fishing for tuna organized nell'antistante stretch of sea has ensured economic prosperity of households in the area of \u200b\u200bCastellammare.
data on numbers of fish in the twentieth century indicate a peak of 1335 tons in 1938 and in 1977, four years before its final closing, about 700 were captured.
The photographs from 'The Streets of Italy' bear the signatures from Ermanno Biagini.
In the text accompanying the report, states, inter alia, that in Sicily it was estimated before the war are caught in middle 4000 tuna per day, or about 120,000 per month, with an Approximate production of three million boxes of tuna oil every 15 days "data perhaps exaggerated, but suggest that the fish wealth of the sea surrounding the island time.
Today, the traps are, unfortunately, mere matter of study, while flower farms have to fatten the fish in cages that limit the natural tendency to move into the depths of sea \u200b\u200band the craft of 'tonnaroti' - in portrait shots Biagini - remains in the memory so yellowed of old photographs.
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