To see and not believe: a dead tuna stranded last Wednesday on the beach of Veneziola, in La Manga, awakened the primal instincts of the people passing by, who began to fillet it. The specimen was over one and a half metres long and weighed dozens of kilos.
While waiting for the relevant authorities to appear to remove it, the curious did not hesitate to cut up the tuna to presumably eat it later. A practice that is not recommended: eating dead fish that wash up on the beach can be very dangerous, as they may contain high levels of histamine.
This substance can cause allergic and inflammatory reactions in humans. Symptoms can appear within a couple of hours after eating the fish and can include itching of the tongue, redness of the neck and face, hives on the hands, ears and head, pain in the abdomen, diarrhoea and nausea.
According to some witnesses, on Tuesday another huge tuna also appeared in the same area of La Manga, but the authorities removed it immediately, although before that many bathers surrounded the dead animal to photograph it, as if it were an attraction.
Unfortunately, this is not the first dead animal that has washed up on the shore of a beach. In fact, in 2019 this image was repeated, with another group of people cutting up the dead animal on the shore. On this occasion, it seems to have been caused by the DANA that devastated the region.