The Genoese and coral fishing in North Africa (15th-16th century): From the Marsacares crisis to the taking of Tabarca

[Autom. eng. transl.] The work intends to highlight the Genoese enterprise of coral which resulted in North Africa between the 15th and 16th centuries. How did relations between different communities change within a specific trade? Was it simply a question of Western exploitation of a North African resource, which the locals did not know how to grasp? What transformations did the gray area at the intersection of two different shores undergo over the course of a century? When the difficulties related to maritime safety affected the earnings of a fishing farm, to the point of inducing investors to abandon the company? We intend to address these questions starting from the illustration of an emblematic case at the intersection of two eras. The events of the Marsacares and Tabarca fishmongers thus lend themselves to numerous comparisons, even though they are part of the same story that deserves to be investigated for the gashes that allow us to open up on the changes in the surrounding world.