The 45-hectare Salinas de Janubio salt mining field is the largest in the Canary Islands. Yet the significance of this field, which has been exploited since 1895, has declined dramatically. At the beginning of the last century, 350,000 tonnes of salt per year were still being extracted here. By the end of that century, this had already dropped to 10,000 tonnes, and in recent years it has been only 2,000 tonnes a year. The salt used to be mainly used for fish preservation, but declining fishing quotas and better refrigeration technology drastically reduced the demand for sea salt. It is now mainly used as a chlorine replacement in swimming pools, and for the production of table salt.
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