Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
I thought it was the purple, and a really nifty middle-man position between other regions of concentrated habitation ? And aren't tuna ocean, ie. open-sea, fish and thus little concerned with continental shelves in the first place ?
My history according to the Science channel states that they took advantage of breeding tuna migrating in the Med or somesuch. There are many kinds of tuna and I don't remember which they were. Profits from the fish, salt, and (you guessed it) salted fish built the foundation of their prosperity.