Curious cat's-cradle-like constructions, trabucchi, dot the Gargano coast, ancient fishing tools still in use today.

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Other important fishing tools include the harpoon, the net, the lure, the spear.

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However, there is also a demand for income-generating assets fishing-nets, tools, bicycles, stocks for a small shop, and so on and hence for microcredit to finance them.

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The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.

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At the same time, employers need to start rethinking their recruiting process, notably in using sophisticated social network search tools to go spear-fishing for high potential talent, rather than waiting for applications to come across the transom.

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The ritual combines knowledge of agriculture, food processing, handicrafts (costumes, tools and musical instruments) and the construction of houses and fishing dams.

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