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Jaula de engorde

English translation: fattening cage / farming cage

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Spanish term or phrase:jaula de engorde
English translation:fattening cage / farming cage
Entered by: Charles Davis

12:20 Dec 15, 2014
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Fisheries
Spanish term or phrase: Jaula de engorde
Hola, colega:

¿Sabría alguno de vosotros cuál es el equivalente en inglés de jaula de engorde? Mi traducción tiene que ver con la pesca ilegal de atunes rojos. Según el texto, los atunes no fueron pescados con "jaulas de engorde" sino con anzuelos. He oído el término "jaula de engorde" referido a pollos, pero no a peces.

Muchísimas gracias por cualquier sugerencia.
EWN1
Spain
fattening cage / farming cage
Explanation:
Literal and straightforward. They are indeed cages, not tanks. Tuna don't swim through the gaps for the simple reason that they're too big to get through. Metal cages are used firstly because they're kept in the sea and you want the seawater to get in and out freely, and secondly because these fish are very big (commonly 250 kg or more) and very strong.

This is not about fish farming in the normal sense of the term. Bluefin tuna (atún rojo) is not reared in captivity; there are people working on it in Japan and the US, because it's the holy grail of fish farming, but they haven't achieved it yet, certainly not on a commercial basis. What they do is catch fully-grown bluefin in the wild with a net called a "cerco" in Spanish, transport them home in a transport cage and then put them in a fattening cage, also known as a farming cage.

So although it's not accurate to say that they are caught with a cage, they are caught as part of a process involving a cage: they're fished using a cage. This process is not illegal but the amount of tuna that may be caught this way is strictly controlled. The illegality is exceeding the quota.

"Cage" alone is not enough, because we ought to distinguish between the transport cage and the fattening cage.

"El suministro de atunes para su engorde en las granjas marinas depende directamente de la pesca de cerco. Se ha visto que las importaciones de atún rojo procedentes de las granjas han aumentado mientras que las capturas declaradas por los barcos cerqueros han disminuido. La única explicación a este hecho es la pesca ilegal, ya que la mayoría de atún de las granjas de engorde proviene de los cerqueros.
Según la FAO “desde 1996, el porcentaje de atún rojo para engorde se han incrementado continuamente, de forma que la mayor parte de los atunes capturados en el mediterráneo se destinan a jaulas de engorde.”"
http://www.andaluciaecologica.com/biodiversidad/atún-rojo/

"In the last 10 years, bluefin tuna fishing grounds have become highly profitable due to the big demand by the sushi and sashimi market. [...] In the last few years, the sharp rise in the fleet has been encouraged by the expansion of bluefin tuna fattening cages in the Mediterranean and the increase in the fleets' capacity."
http://oceana.org/en/eu/media-reports/features/bluefin-tuna

"Recommendation by ICCAT amending the recommendation by ICCAT to establish a multi-annual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean [...]
j) "Caging" means the transfer of live bluefin tuna from the transport cage or trap to the farming cages. [...]
k) "Farming" means caging of bluefin tuna in farms and subsequent feeding aiming to fatten and increase their total biomass."
https://www.iccat.int/Documents/Recs/compendiopdf-e/2012-03-...

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By the way, Oliver's query made me look for an image of a "transport cage" for bluefin tuna, and it's actually a kind of net rather than what I'd call a cage. Here's another one:
http://www.gettyimages.es/detail/foto/bluefin-tuna-cage-bein...

The fattening/farming cages are probably the same. The word "cage" made me assume they'd be made of metal, but this is apparently not so.

By the way, ICCAT is the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 01:41
Grading comment
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2fattening cage / farming cage
Charles Davis
4 +1fish fattening pool/tank
Ana Vozone
4Mariculture / Aquaculture tanks
Andrew Bramhall
4cage
patinba


Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
fish fattening pool/tank


Explanation:
Suggestion

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Note added at 7 mins (2014-12-15 12:28:04 GMT)
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https://books.google.pt/books?id=f5hQjhu07r0C&pg=PA73&lpg=PA...

http://www.google.je/patents/CN2361082Y?cl=en

Ana Vozone
Local time: 00:41
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Possibly a cage. I think the asker may have misunderstood the context - you don't fish for tuna using tanks.
12 mins
  -> Thanks, Phil. The asker mentioned that the fish were caught with hooks.
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: That Chinese link about 'fattening tanks' isn't very reliable from a language point of view;
1 hr
  -> The term is found in European legislation. So I feel this is enough to "certify" my choice.
neutral  neilmac: Usually "jaulas" are cages, not tanks....
5 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Mariculture / Aquaculture tanks


Explanation:
To give them their proper names; ' aquaculture' for fresh water fish, ' mariculture' for salt water fish. these are not 'cages' because the steel latticework wouldn't keep the water or the fish in; neither are they 'pools' as such.
As Phil says, the term 'pescados' is wrong here, and the writer probably meant ' reared' or 'criados'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farming

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cage


Explanation:
They are reared and fished from cages. Personally, I would skip the "fattening" as I can't see it commonly applied to fish.

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The Balfegó fleet goes to sea between May and June to catch its assigned quota of red tuna; after waiting for the fish to spawn to safeguard the next generation, the catch is taken to a complex of large cages 2.5 miles off the coast at L’Ametlla de Mar. There, the fish are fed and they will stay until they reach the correct weight for selling at the market. Balfegó stress that fish are only sacrificed when a client places an order and sale is guaranteed.

Armed with the day’s order list, the Balfegó catamaran leaves port each day bound for the tuna cages. There, the next are cast and balloons inside the cages are inflated to group the tuna together. After separating them into groups, divers select the fish to be placed in the net, where they will be sacrificed and hoisted onto the refrigeration vessel.

http://www.foodswinesfromspain.com/spanishfoodwine/global/pr...

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 20:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: They'd swim through the gaps as the water escaped, wouldn't they?
37 mins
  -> Apparently not, presumably being bigger than the gaps...
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
fattening cage / farming cage


Explanation:
Literal and straightforward. They are indeed cages, not tanks. Tuna don't swim through the gaps for the simple reason that they're too big to get through. Metal cages are used firstly because they're kept in the sea and you want the seawater to get in and out freely, and secondly because these fish are very big (commonly 250 kg or more) and very strong.

This is not about fish farming in the normal sense of the term. Bluefin tuna (atún rojo) is not reared in captivity; there are people working on it in Japan and the US, because it's the holy grail of fish farming, but they haven't achieved it yet, certainly not on a commercial basis. What they do is catch fully-grown bluefin in the wild with a net called a "cerco" in Spanish, transport them home in a transport cage and then put them in a fattening cage, also known as a farming cage.

So although it's not accurate to say that they are caught with a cage, they are caught as part of a process involving a cage: they're fished using a cage. This process is not illegal but the amount of tuna that may be caught this way is strictly controlled. The illegality is exceeding the quota.

"Cage" alone is not enough, because we ought to distinguish between the transport cage and the fattening cage.

"El suministro de atunes para su engorde en las granjas marinas depende directamente de la pesca de cerco. Se ha visto que las importaciones de atún rojo procedentes de las granjas han aumentado mientras que las capturas declaradas por los barcos cerqueros han disminuido. La única explicación a este hecho es la pesca ilegal, ya que la mayoría de atún de las granjas de engorde proviene de los cerqueros.
Según la FAO “desde 1996, el porcentaje de atún rojo para engorde se han incrementado continuamente, de forma que la mayor parte de los atunes capturados en el mediterráneo se destinan a jaulas de engorde.”"
http://www.andaluciaecologica.com/biodiversidad/atún-rojo/

"In the last 10 years, bluefin tuna fishing grounds have become highly profitable due to the big demand by the sushi and sashimi market. [...] In the last few years, the sharp rise in the fleet has been encouraged by the expansion of bluefin tuna fattening cages in the Mediterranean and the increase in the fleets' capacity."
http://oceana.org/en/eu/media-reports/features/bluefin-tuna

"Recommendation by ICCAT amending the recommendation by ICCAT to establish a multi-annual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean [...]
j) "Caging" means the transfer of live bluefin tuna from the transport cage or trap to the farming cages. [...]
k) "Farming" means caging of bluefin tuna in farms and subsequent feeding aiming to fatten and increase their total biomass."
https://www.iccat.int/Documents/Recs/compendiopdf-e/2012-03-...

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Note added at 2 days38 mins (2014-12-17 12:59:02 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

By the way, Oliver's query made me look for an image of a "transport cage" for bluefin tuna, and it's actually a kind of net rather than what I'd call a cage. Here's another one:
http://www.gettyimages.es/detail/foto/bluefin-tuna-cage-bein...

The fattening/farming cages are probably the same. The word "cage" made me assume they'd be made of metal, but this is apparently not so.

By the way, ICCAT is the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 01:41
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 39
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: I use this form for my clients in the "acuacultura" department of the university...
1 hr
  -> Well, well! Thanks, Neil ;)
agree  John Cutler: As usual a well documented answer. That in itself fulfills the qualification of "helpful"
16 hrs
  -> Thanks very much, John :)
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: ? to Jim: "Cage" alone is not enough, because we ought to distinguish between the transport cage and the fattening cage" How the heck do you keep both water and fish in a "transport cage" ??? Surely one or both would run out and the fish would die??
1 day 19 hrs
  -> The cage is underwater. Here's a picture captioned "A bluefin tuna inside a transport cage" http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2009/sep/10/w...
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