BlueFin Tuna Balfegò
Balfegò The Spanish company Balfegò operates with cutting-edge systems for quality, responsibility and sustainability. And to guarantee the customers, it accompanies each of its products with a document that allows complete traceability: origin, size, weight, capture documentation. In the restaurant this is imposing fish (Thunnus Thynnus) holds high, despite the ethical problems related to the exploitation of this protected species. In recent decades, in fact, due to intensive exploitation, the tuna had declined and the strict international regulation that today regulates the capture, by number of specimens and fishing period, aims to stem this decline, with encouraging results. Soft capture system It is the bluefin tuna or giant tuna, the most sought after among the various species: a great traveler who lives in herds, feeds on sardines and anchovies reaching a weight of up to 200 kg and which also covers 200 kilometers a day during his long migrations, for reproduction. A part of the herds that live in the Atlantic goes to the Gulf of Mexico, the other to the Mediterranean with a stop near the Balearics, where it finds the ideal conditions for reproduction. It is precisely in this area of the sea that he captures Balfegò, a Spanish company with operational headquarters in Ametlla de Mar, near Tarragona, specializing in the capture, feeding, study and marketing of bluefin tuna, according to a system of environmental responsibility and sustainability. Also for tuna, as for other animals destined for human consumption, capture is a strong stress, which can negatively affect the quality of the catch, but can be limited, based on the manner in which capture and killing are performed . In Balfegò they studied a sustainable fishing technique that is at the cutting edge worldwide, which allows fresh tuna to be placed on the market, in compliance with international fishing regulations and the number of specimens caught on the basis of the allocation indicated by the international scientific committee of the Iccat (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna)