Fine small sardines packed in olive oil. Fish harvesters use a small-scale harvesting method, called Xeito in Galician, involving curtains of netting suspended by a system of floats and weights to catch sardines. The fine netting is almost invisible, so sardines unwittingly swim into the mesh. As they try to back out, their gill covers get snagged and the fish becomes entangled in the net and are hauled aboard one by one.

About 122 of 419 vessels use gill nets or the "Xeito" methods. These small gill-net vessels catch about 29 percent of all the sardines in Galicia.

Country / Region: Spain / Galicia

Weight: 130 grams

Drained Weight: 110 grams