Journal of the twentieth day on board

22nd May, 1999

The encounter with the 'verdesca' of the 17 May was in some part helped and made possible by a warning we had had a few hours previously.
Shopping for chum (we are using tonnes of it although no animal will be killed for this expedition or by this expedition) on a fishing boat off the Gulf of Taranto, I was pulling in the nets along with the bloody slop and a little 'verdesca'!
It was alive. I threw it back into the sea. I then went looking for the parents! After 6 hours of waiting the mother turned up. We say mother but it was an adult female and sexually mature.