Pelle : colorazione viva, brillante e lucente grigio-grafite o verde opalino sul dorso e giallo dorato sui fianchi, lo spessore della pelle deve essere minimo e non superiore a 1 mm, eventuali segni, lesioni o abrasioni skin are permitted provided that healed only by or arising from the action of fishing or predation.
Meat : relation to the organoleptic characteristics of meat of "the Golden Hump Tinca Pianalto Poirino 'was tender, soft, fairly compact, low-fat and therefore no taste and odors such as mud, silt or grass, are light and delicate flavor of fish, not decided how the fish of the sea.
Eye: bright, vivid, bright, convex, transparent cornea and pupil black, yellow or orange bulb.
tench, Land, Peschiere
The Golden Hump Tinca Pianalto Poirino, unlike the other specimens of tench geographic ranges, not indicative of taste and smell the flavor of 'mud 'or' grass' and the meat is tender. This characteristic is directly determined by the type of fisheries management which has always been implemented in Pianalto. These needs will differ from similar environments because they muddy the fund fails to form a continuous mass of water and the conditions are extremely variable for most of the growing season, preventing the establishment of conditions conducive to the development of 'blooms' algae.
to understand why, in fishing Pianalto, Tench of livestock, it is difficult to develop stable populations and substantial Cyanophyte and therefore it is understandable why the meat of the fish does not acquire the characteristic scent which, not surprisingly, the French call "limon", just mud.
The Pianalto is isolated from the surface water coming down from the Alps and ground water are below the blanket diluvial rainfall in the area are scarce (700 mm / year) and the small scale of the catchment area downstream quickly convey the runoff.
The particular structure of the clay and planondulata Pianalto naturally lends itself to retention of surface water, the people have spoken on the territory by building dams can provide water for irrigation, which are fully adapted for the rearing of tench.
The rural landscape was and still is characterized by a large number of small and large fish tanks often obtained in the vicinity of homes and villages. In these increasingly invaded by the tench are bred both as a source of supplemental protein and as a product from the market. In the past, the reservoirs were used simultaneously as clay pits, for watering livestock, irrigation and so on, stagnant water throughout the year and, although subject to the organic load, wide variations in level of oxygen content and temperature, however, allowed the survival of tench, fish that best suited to these extreme conditions.
Most fishmongers is distributed in the municipality of Poirino, but many others, for a total of 400 reservoirs are located throughout the Pianalto. A Pralormo are over 100!
These particular soil and climate factors, combined with the old man's work help to give the Golden Hump Tinca Pianalto Poirino of characteristics that can make this production unique. The consumption of this product typically is generally excellent on-site at restaurants and inns.
History
The link between geological phenomena that have marked the formation of Poirino Plateau and the occurrence of fish species, accounting for the same period, allow us to consider the Tinca tinca an indigenous species already widespread and in-diffusion, from middle-lower Pleistocene period belonging Neozoic era.
The presence of the hump golden tench in Pianalto, as farmed fish and enjoyed the food and economic value, is proved by documents dating back to XIII century ; even among the many taxes that plagued the rural population Ceresole d'Alba, one required the delivery of varying amounts of tench .
In relatively recent times we have very precise information, for example in the collection " Geographical Studies on Turin and Piedmont " - aa. And vice versa. Giappichelli 1954 - one of the authors, Christmas Veronesi, Tinca dedicated to the breeding of the file: " peaches Pianalto Poirino and utilization of fish " . Among the many curiosities described, Veronesi comes to commercial fishermen, use fishmongers to handle the contracts of others sharecropping and rental; this career there are no major rivers for fish production in the Plateau, was justified by the income of only tench. On the other hand, consulting the 'Deliveries of salt "of Poirino are identified as early as 1775 five families of fishermen, who apparently get their income by farming and sale of tench.
activity professional fishing , meaning that effect the rearing of tench, lasted for centuries and only recently, at the beginning of eighties, it is quite disappearance as a full-time work, being present as an ancillary activity to agriculture. In order to ensure traceability of the product inspection body will give a list of producers, farm ponds and air conditioners.
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