Fisheries hISTORY

Marine animal populations: a new look back in time

by Poul Holm

Resolving long-term change in Polynesian marine fisheries

by Melinda Allen

Kalastus ja vesien virkistyskäyttö

by Timo Myllyntaus

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“Kalastus ja vesien virkistyskäyttö” [Fishing and the recreational use of waters], Vesitalous, Finnish Journal for Professionals in the Water Sector, vol. 43 (2002) no 5, pp. 29-32.

The article was published in the special issue of Vesitalous dedicated to the centennary anniversary of the Finnish law on water rights.

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Waterpower has always made a great contribution to the national economy, especially in... more .
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Waterpower has always made a great contribution to the national economy, especially in the early 20th century, when the pace of industrialisation accelerated in Finland. Fishing, in contrast, is a legacy of the age of economic self-sufficiency, although today it is mainly a leisure practice. Nevertheless, the development of water rights legislation shows that fishing has had and still has a surprisingly high symbolic value, although the traditional Nordic “everyman’s right” has been minimized in fishing.

The interest paid to fishing in legislation promoted conservation, even before conservation had become an established concept. The 1902 Water Rights Act is of special importance as it includes and reinforces some old fishing rights principles, while seeking to balance the demands of various interest groups.

Stable isotope evidence for late medieval (14th–15th C) origins of the Eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) fishery

by David Orton

PLoS ONE, 6(11):e27568

Although recent historical ecology studies have extended quantitative knowledge of eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua)... more Although recent historical ecology studies have extended quantitative knowledge of eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) exploitation back as far as the 16th century, the historical origin of the modern fishery remains obscure. Widespread archaeological evidence for cod consumption around the eastern Baltic littoral emerges around the 13th century, three centuries before systematic documentation, but it is not clear whether this represents (1) development of a substantial eastern Baltic cod fishery, or (2) large-scale importation of preserved cod from elsewhere. To distinguish between these hypotheses we use stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis to determine likely catch regions of 74 cod vertebrae and cleithra from 19 Baltic archaeological sites dated from the 8th to the 16th centuries. δ13C and δ15N signatures for six possible catch regions were established using a larger sample of archaeological cod cranial bones (n = 249). The data strongly support the second hypothesis, revealing widespread importation of cod during the 13th to 14th centuries, most of it probably from Arctic Norway. By the 15th century, however, eastern Baltic cod dominate within our sample, indicating the development of a substantial late medieval fishery. Potential human impact on cod stocks in the eastern Baltic must thus be taken into account for at least the last 600 years.

Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones

by David Orton

Barrett, Orton, and 18 others. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(7):1516-1524

Archaeological fish bones reveal increases in marine fish utilisation in Northern and Western Europe beginning in the... more Archaeological fish bones reveal increases in marine fish utilisation in Northern and Western Europe beginning in the 10th and 11th centuries AD. We use stable isotope signatures from 300 archaeological cod (Gadus morhua) bones to determine whether this sea fishing revolution resulted from increased local fishing or the introduction of preserved fish transported from distant waters such as Arctic Norway, Iceland and/or the Northern Isles of Scotland (Orkney and Shetland). Results from 12 settlements in England and Flanders (Belgium) indicate that catches were initially local. Between the 9th and 12th centuries most bones represented fish from the southern North Sea. Conversely, by the 13th to 14th centuries demand was increasingly met through long distance transport – signalling the onset of the globalisation of commercial fisheries and suggesting that cities such as London quickly outgrew the capacity of local fish supplies.

Marine Animal Populations:A New Look Back in Time

by Poul Holm

authors: Poul Holm, Anne Husum Marboe, Bo Poulsen, Brian R. MacKenzie

What used to be in the sea before humans began impacting marine ecosystems and habitats? What are the major long-term... more What used to be in the sea before humans began impacting marine ecosystems and habitats? What are the major long-term effects of human extractions of marine life? Are the impacts of recent or ancient origin? In other words what are the baselines against which we may evaluate some of the findings of the Census of Marine Life field projects by 2010? Can we talk with confidence about the history of the sea, can we gauge how much has changed – and with what consequences to us humans? This was the grand challenge that was put to the scientific community some ten years ago when the Census endorsed the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) Project to assess and explain the history of diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life.

Multi-decadal scale variability in the eastern Baltic cod fishery 1550-1860--Evidence and causes

by Poul Holm

Human impacts on fisheries resources and abundance in the Danish Wadden Sea, c1520 to the present

by Poul Holm

A long-term (1667-1860) perspective on impacts of fishing and environmental variability on fisheries for herring, eel, and whitefish in the Limfjord, Denmark

by Poul Holm

An abundance estimate of ling (Molva molva) and cod (Gadus morhua) in the Skagerrak and the northeastern North Sea, 1872

by Poul Holm

Fishing down the North Sea

by Poul Holm

What can fisheries historians learn from marine science?: The concept of catch per unit effort (CPUE)

by Poul Holm