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The tuna trap in Barbate that waits for the fish instead of chasing it

La Breña pine forest on the Barbate cliffs with the Strait behind

Draft. This piece will explain how the almadraba works off Barbate: a maze of fixed nets set every spring across the tuna's path into the Mediterranean.

Lidia Galván stacks tins as her uncles chat at the cannery door

We will go out with Manolo Ruiz, who has thirty years at the almadraba behind him, and spend a day on the packing line with Lidia Galván at her family's cannery.

Rosa Baeza tastes a slice of mojama that Sara has just cut

It will explain why the cannery could close, and what would be lost if Barbate tuna were tinned somewhere else under another name.

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