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Norfish: Danish Kattegat herring fishery, 1520-1899 Citable as data publication Holm, P and Nicholls, J. 2020. Norfish: Danish Kattegat Herring Fishery 1520 - 1899. Dublin: TCD. https://doi.org/10.14284/487 Contact: Nicholls, John Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description 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 more The Kattegat is historically important as the entry to the Baltic from the North Sea and the wider Atlantic. For centuries, whoever held control of this region determined the rights and abilities of shipping to pass safely. Taxes were levied on passing vessels and local fisheries were recognised separately as a result. The local herring fishery was typically subject to the “oar tax” which extracted a value in herrings per vessel as payment for safe landing and harbouring in the Kattegat. Scope Themes: Biology > Fish, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Archaeology, Baltic sea, Catch/effort, Clupeoid fisheries, Herrings, History, Observation, surface vessel, AN, North Atlantic, ANE, Baltic, ANE, Denmark, ANE, Kattegat, ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816 Geographical coverage AN, North Atlantic [Marine Regions] ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions] ANE, Denmark [Marine Regions] ANE, Kattegat [Marine Regions] ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 11,3041; MinLat: 56,3432 - MaxLong: 11,3041; MaxLat: 56,3432 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 1520 - 1899 Taxonomic coverage Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816 [WoRMS] Parameter Occurrence of biota Contributors Related datasets Project NorFish: The North atlantic Fish Revolution: An Environmental History of the North Atlantic 1400-1700, more URLs Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Data collection Metadatarecord created: 2021-07-05 Information last updated: 2022-08-16 | ||||
