In 1878, the First Fishing Society of Novigrad was founded, and in 1899, the Tuna Fishing Cooperative. Both cooperatives engaged in tuna fishing in the Novigrad Sea. Towards the end of the Second World War, a new Novigrad Fishery Cooperative was foun...

The Novigrad fishing area includes the entire Novigrad and Karina Seas and the lower course of the Zrmanja River.

It consists of traditional fishing tools, nets, tops, longlines, “tunja”, “panula” and other tools related to collecting shells.