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It comes from the Arabic, and it means place of killing:
Alma is place, and Darab means killing.
All this was the factory.
They used to lay the tuna fish here
it came on the boats and then was brought
in trucks to here.
None of this exists around here.
I miss that time when Vila Real always smelled like stewed tuna fish.
Let’s just say I am the last mohican.
The capture of tuna fish is one of the most ancient
and spread fishing arts in the Mediterranean.
Since the times of the Phoenician civilisation until today
what made tuna fish stop being the main way
of making a living from the sea?
What remains of the families and the industry it supported?
What stories turn this thread of facts
traces and places… into a real
tuna fish labyrinth?