Document of dataset 7763

Dataset record

Type

Dataset

DOI

https://www.doi.org/10.14284/489

title in English

Norfish: Danish Sound herring fishery, 1368-1790

Description in English

The series for this dataset provides few given data points and requires a large amount of extrapolation to fill annual values for the Danish Sound (Øresund). It was, nevertheless, perhaps the most important fishery of the Middle Ages. It did decline after the mid-sixteenth century for reasons still unknown.

Abstract in English

NorFish is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant led by Prof Poul Holm in Trinity College Dublin, focuses on the premise that a 16th century shift in marine fish pricing and supply in conjunction with the Little Ice Age and lowering of sea temperatures not only rise to the North Atlantic Fish Revolution but also forms one of the first documented examples of the disrupting effects of globalisation and climate change. The project examines the role of the Fish Revolution for a range of inter-related aspects of North Atlantic history, with NorFish’s interdisciplinary team drawing on archaeology, history, cartography, geography, and ecology to develop interpretative frameworks that synthesise a broad spectrum of source data to assess the overall objective of the project. NorFish’s interdisciplinary team draws on archaeology, history, cartography, geography, and ecology to assess the objectives of the project.

License

https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html

bibliographicCitation

Holm, P. and Nicholls, J. 2020. Norfish: Danish Sound Herring Fishery 1368-1790. Dublin: TCD

Version

1.0