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Norfish: French herring fishery, 1520-1790
Citable as data publication
Allaire, B., Nicholls, J and Holm, P. 2020. Norfish: French Northeast Atlantic Herring Fishery 1520-1790. Dublin: TCD. https://doi.org/10.14284/495

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Availability: Creative Commons License 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

Identifying sources for the French Herring Fishery, which prevailed in the North Sea, the Irish Sea, off the Western coast of Scotland and through the English Channel during the 1520-1790 period, is difficult. Whatever archived records may exist are sparse, unresearched and scattered.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Archaeology, Clupeoid fisheries, Herrings, History, Observation, AN, North Atlantic, ANE, Celtic-Biscay Shelf, ANE, France, ANE, North East Atlantic, ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816

Geographical coverage
AN, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]
ANE, Celtic-Biscay Shelf [Marine Regions]
ANE, France [Marine Regions]
ANE, North East Atlantic [Marine Regions]
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -20; MinLat: 46 - MaxLong: -20; MaxLat: 46 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1520 - 1790

Taxonomic coverage
Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816 [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
The University of Dublin, Trinity College; Centre for Environmental Humanities, moredata creator
Roskilde University (RUC), moredata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
OPI: Oceans Past Initiative, more

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

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2021-07-05
Information last updated: 2021-07-08
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