Egadi Islands

The Egadi Islands lie off western Sicily, beyond the port of Trapani. Favignana, Levanzo and Marettimo rise from waters crossed by migrating tuna, while smaller Formica lies between Favignana and Sicily. In the seventeenth century the Genoese Pallavicini acquired the tuna traps of Favignana and Formica; records from 1723 describe efforts to reduce the cost of operating the Formica fishery.