1/13/2024 0 Comments Download live a live middle ages![]() Some inland regions developed aquaculture to enhance local supplies of fresh fish. ![]() ![]() Exploitation slowly shifted from limited or deteriorating local inland and inshore fish populations to frontier, commonly marine, and increasingly pelagic resources. Many fisheries met the demand for food by economic reorientation from subsistence to artisanal and then even fully commercial purposes. Both nutritional and cultural needs shaped human consumption of aquatic organisms. Anthropogenic influences on fish populations and aquatic habitats interacted with natural environmental variations. ![]() To help understand the past and present of the Wadden Sea, this paper sets the main developments of medieval fisheries in the context of changing larger European social and aquatic environments ca. Humans have exploited European aquatic resources since at least the Palaeolithic, but during the Middle Ages rising human populations and demand initiated great changes in many fisheries. ![]()
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