La pêche aux thons sur la côte Basque Française et son évolution récente

Traditional tuna fisheries in France have been described very often and in a very good manner, and it would be superfluous to write a bibliography of the works dealing with this subject. The following few pages, resulting from observations and personal studies, aim to precise the specific and new aspect of one of these fisheries. An important share of our marine economy, they are carried out in three of the four metropolitan seas, as these fishes are not found in the English Channel; hence, from a professional point of view, three major types.