The different types of artisan fishing used still today include “still fishing” or fishing with a rod and live bait, commonly used in the Bay of Biscay and in the Strait of Gibraltar. Despite its relatively recent arrival to the Bay of Biscay (in the 1950s), it is the type of fishing that is perhaps least farthest removed from what must have been the first battle between man and tuna, making it even more spectacular to the uninitiated viewer. This art consists of catching the fish with a rod and live bait. After fishing the bait with a purse net (scad, sardine, leporinus obtusidens, anchovy…), it is placed in fish farms that are specially prepared to keep it alive for several days. Once the school of tuna has been located, a bit of bait, and sometimes

jets of water, are applied to the surface for two reasons: one is to make the situation similar to that of a healthy school of fish and the other is to make it difficult for the tuna to see what is happening outside of the water because of the distortion caused on the surface. The fishermen take up positions on all sides of the vessel with their rods, equipped with a short line and live bait. Once the tuna bites, it is hauled quickly aboard and killed, and the rod is once again cast. When the fish are very large, fishing is done in pairs. While one of the fisherman baits and hooks, the other hauls the fish up with a pulley on which the rod has been placed.