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THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITION

Our company is constantly evolving. In 2015, thanks to an important investment, a real factory was born with the aim of processing and preserving tuna with cutting-edge technologies. These aims are reached without ever abandoning eco-sustainable fishing and respect for the environment. We preserve an ancient craft, economically enhancing the territory of Southern Sardinia. 

In addition to the powerful cold storage facilities, the quality control laboratories, the tuna cooking and processing machinery, the company has passed on to the tuna fishers (tonnarotti), who grew up in the traditional bluefin tuna fishing, new and complex environmentally friendly fishing methods, protecting the species of small size and reducing bycatch of other species. 

 Althunnus was born to embrace and consolidate the history of our island, the one in which the enterprising Pietro Porta, back in 1554, returning from one of his many trips, saw an opportunity in the South-West of Sardinia: inspired by the so-called "Almadrabas ” and by the fishing plants in Sicily, he brought to the attention of King Philip II the possibility of huge earnings thanks to the consistent passage of tuna in the Sardinian coasts: it was thus that a few years later, the first fixed tuna traps (tonnare) were born on our island.  

TUNA-FISHING NET LOCATIONS

TONNARA DI CAPO ALTANO

  • A few miles from the coast and from the ruins of a military post from the Second World War: this is the tuna-fishing net location that has accompanied the Portoscuno tradition since 1614.

TUNA-FISHING NETS OF cala VINAGRA

  • In Carloforte, in sea surrounded by cliffs and colours ranging from turquoise to blue, fishing takes place mostly to produce the Cala Vinagra line in oil (link in the brochure). Our company recently carried out a campaign to reclaim the seabed from "ghost nets", collecting 20 tons of fishing material that had been sunk for more than a decade and returning a stretch of sea of about 50 hectares to the community.

TUNA-FISHING NETS OF PORTO PAGLIA

  • Located, like Capo Altano, few meters from the coast, the ancient tuna-fishing nets of Porto Paglia are in Gonnesa, 15 km from Iglesias.