Project record of The North atlantic Fish Revolution: An Environmental History of the North Atlantic 1400-1700

Information

Type

Project

Name

The North atlantic Fish Revolution: An Environmental History of the North Atlantic 1400-1700

Acronym

NorFish

Description @en

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. The NorFish Project is a natural “pre-cursor” to the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP), which was part of the original CoML and OBIS group of Sloane Foundation funded projects. NorFish, directly linked with the Oceans Past Initiative and OBIS, seeks to continue the work of providing academically researched historical data series and provide these as Open Access/Creative Commons licensed datasets to the Scientific, Academic and Public communities.

Start date

2016

End date

2020