I had been gazing at the surface of the sea for more than an hour from the deck of a fishing boat, just off Zahara de los Atunes on Andalusia’s Costa de la Luz. Our boat, the Tierra, was one of four making up the sides of a square, the men on board gradually raising the net that was slung between them. We were nearing the climax of the almadraba, a technique used to catch bluefin tuna on this stretch of coast since the Phoenicians settled 3,000 years ago.
我站立在停靠在小村薩阿拉-德洛斯阿圖內斯(Zahara de los Atunes)不遠處的漁船甲板上,凝望海面足足超過1個小時。薩阿拉-德洛斯阿圖內斯位于西班牙安達盧西亞的光明海岸(Andalusia’s Costa de la Luz)。我們的船Tierra與其它3艘船圍成一個方形區域,4艘漁船上的漁夫正合力慢慢收起撒放在他們之間的漁網。我們即將就要看到almadraba古法捕撈藍鰭金槍魚的最高潮部分。早在3000多年前,定居于此的腓尼基人(Phoenicians)就用這種方法在這片海域捕撈它們。