Where Levada Walking is Our Passion
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The "Espada Preta" of Madeira | |
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| Select any of the sections below to read more about the Madeira Black Scabbard Fish: |
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| Machico today - the area where Gonçalves Zarco first set foot on Madeira Island |
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How it all began - the discovery of the natural bounty all around Madeira The Madeira fishing industry began soon after Gonçalves Zarco discovered the Island in the fifteenth century. Many of the sailors that accompanied the discoverer and the colonisers that followed them were themselves fishermen from the Algarve and other regions of Portugal. Initially fish such as the “Garapau” (Blacktail Combers) were caught off the rocky outcrops of the “Pontinha” and the “Forte São José” on the immediacies of the Funchal bay area. |
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| Machico, being the shore where the Portuguese discoverers first set foot, also enjoyed an early piscatorial industry. Fishermen cast their nets a few short hundred metres off the shoreline. Later, areas such as Porto Moniz, Seixal and Ribeira Brava also developed communities of fishermen. Caniçal on the south eastern stretch of Madeira was also, as so many other locations around the world were, an important whaling centre too. Today Madeira complies with international laws restricting whale fishing. |
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