Musciame

[3] A somewhat similar product in Sicily made from fillet of tuna, often sold as "mosciame di tonno", is essentially the same as the mojama de atún of Spain.

[4][6] In the same year, the corpse of a young bottlenose dolphin was found butchered on a beach at Golfo Aranci in Sardinia; the Ente Nazionale Protezione Animali [it], the national league for the protection of animals, said that it had been slaughtered for musciame.

[5] According to a report published in 2015 by the Lega Anti Vivisezione [it], the Italian anti-vivisection league, illegal killing of dolphins for musciame production continues.

[7] Musciame was a basic element of the diet of Ligurian seamen, who ate it with ship's biscuit softened with sea-water and vinegar, accompanied by vegetables.

It is prepared in the summer months by salting strips of tuna fillet from the large conical muscle known as bodano, which are then sun-dried, smoked, or – more often – dried in a warm oven.