{"id":1161,"date":"2026-04-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/pescatori-sardegna-memoria-mare\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:49:31","slug":"pescatori-sardegna-memoria-mare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/pescatori-sardegna-memoria-mare\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen of Sardinia: the memory of the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pescatori-di-Sardegna-la-memoria-del-mare-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Barca da pesca tradizionale al porto\" class=\"wp-image-1322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pescatori-di-Sardegna-la-memoria-del-mare-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pescatori-di-Sardegna-la-memoria-del-mare-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pescatori-di-Sardegna-la-memoria-del-mare-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pescatori-di-Sardegna-la-memoria-del-mare-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pescatori-di-Sardegna-la-memoria-del-mare-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pescatori-di-Sardegna-la-memoria-del-mare.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quando si cammina sul porto di Villasimius al mattino presto, si vedono le barche tornare. Reti, cassette, pescato. Sembra una scena eterna. In realt\u00e0 \u00e8 una storia piuttosto recente: in Sardegna, la <strong>fishing as a widespread coastal profession<\/strong> \u00e8 di poco pi\u00f9 di un secolo. Vale la pena raccontarla, perch\u00e9 spiega molte cose dell\u2019isola di oggi.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Un\u2019isola che ha pescato poco, a lungo<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fino all\u2019Ottocento, la popolazione sarda era prevalentemente dell\u2019entroterra. Pastori, contadini, minatori. Le coste erano in gran parte spopolate, pericolose per secoli di incursioni barbaresche. La pesca era praticata da comunit\u00e0 specifiche e minoritarie, spesso di origine non sarda: <strong>Tabarchini<\/strong> (descendants of Ligurians from Genoa) in Carloforte and Calasetta, <strong>Neapolitans<\/strong> and <strong>Sicilians<\/strong> in the main ports.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The great change came between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, when:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Il pericolo delle incursioni fin\u00ec definitivamente.<\/li><li>Industrial fishing (tuna traps, trawling) expanded throughout the Mediterranean.<\/li><li>Lo stato sabaudo incentiv\u00f2 l\u2019insediamento di comunit\u00e0 di pescatori.<\/li><li>Sardinian families began to take up coastal fishing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sardinia's tuna traps<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uno dei capitoli pi\u00f9 affascinanti della storia marittima sarda sono le <strong>tonnare<\/strong>: impianti complessi di reti fisse per la cattura del tonno durante le migrazioni di maggio-giugno. La pi\u00f9 celebre era quella di <strong>Portoscuso<\/strong>, nella Sardegna sud-occidentale, ma ce n\u2019erano diverse attive anche nel sud-est. La \u201cmattanza\u201d era un evento collettivo con rituali, canti, figure specifiche come il <em>rais<\/em> (head of the tuna trap).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sardinia's tuna traps closed one after another during the twentieth century, for economic reasons and above all because of the collapse of the bluefin tuna population. In recent years some have been converted into <strong>museums<\/strong> or cultural venues.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small-scale artisanal fishing today<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La struttura della pesca sarda contemporanea \u00e8 rimasta in larga parte <strong>artisanal<\/strong>. Boats of seven to twelve metres, family crews, nets laid in the evening and hauled in at dawn. The main species:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Red mullet<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Grey mullet<\/strong> and mazzetta mullet<\/li><li><strong>Red spiny lobster<\/strong> of the Mediterranean (in western Sardinia)<\/li><li><strong>Octopus<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Cuttlefish<\/strong> and flying squid<\/li><li><strong>Swordfish<\/strong> (in some areas)<\/li><li><strong>Red prawns<\/strong> e scampi (pesca pi\u00f9 profonda)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The relationship with local restaurants<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La filiera \u201cpescatore-ristorante\u201d in Sardegna \u00e8 ancora corta. Molti ristoranti di piccole dimensioni comprano direttamente dalla barca all\u2019alba. Questo spiega perch\u00e9 il pesce fresco sardo ha un sapore diverso: non passa da mercati intermedi, arriva sul tavolo nella stessa giornata in cui \u00e8 stato pescato.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Today's threats<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>An ageing profession<\/strong>: pochi giovani pescatori, difficolt\u00e0 di ricambio generazionale.<\/li><li><strong>Illegal fishing<\/strong> and nets abandoned at sea.<\/li><li><strong>Concorrenza dell\u2019importato<\/strong> sold at low prices.<\/li><li><strong>Climate change<\/strong>: some species are moving north, others are arriving (tropical fish).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fishing as a living museum<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Molte localit\u00e0 costiere sarde \u2014 Villasimius tra queste \u2014 mantengono porti pescherecci ancora attivi. Non sono solo folklore: sono l\u2019infrastruttura di ci\u00f2 che arriva in tavola. Una mattinata al porto, prima di colazione, durante un soggiorno al <strong>Cormoran Resort Villasimius<\/strong>, \u00e8 una piccola finestra su un mestiere che resiste. E uno dei motivi per cui la cucina del resort, basata su prodotti locali, ha il sapore che ha.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cormoran-post-cta is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"text-align:center;padding:50px 20px 20px;border-top:1px solid rgba(11,61,58,0.18);margin-top:70px;\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center cta-eyebrow wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:11px;letter-spacing:4px;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b48a3f;font-family:'Brandon font',sans-serif;margin-bottom:14px;font-weight:500;\">Cormoran Resort Villasimius<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-family:'Brandon font',sans-serif;font-weight:300;font-size:34px;color:#0b3d3a;margin:0 0 18px;line-height:1.3;\">Discover our seasonal offers<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#555;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;max-width:540px;margin:0 auto 32px;\">Prenota direttamente e scegli il soggiorno pi\u00f9 adatto al tuo viaggio in Sardegna.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cormoran-cta-btn\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/offerte\/\">See the offers<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing in Sardinia is a more recent story than you might think. How it developed, who carried it on and what remains today of the small local fishing communities.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[36,32,53,47],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storia-memoria","tag-mare","tag-sardegna","tag-storia","tag-tradizioni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotel-cormoran.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}