Patrick W Hayes

Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600 (eBook, PDF)

Economics, Environment and Ecology

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600.

It combines a wide range of historical sources with innovative digital research methods to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview. Government letters and court documents highlight the diverse range of fishing fleets from across Europe that visited Irish waters in the early sixteenth century, bringing wealth and cultural influence to the native Irish, who developed complex systems to protect and tax the visitors. Furthermore, trade records illustrate that fish was Ireland's premier export in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, a range of factors led to the industry's collapse by the end of the sixteenth century: the Tudor conquest which disrupted fishing operations and fundamentally altered who controlled fishing resources; the destabilization of Irish waters resulting from the terrestrial conflict, which allowed pirates to thrive; an influx of cheap cod from the newly exploited fisheries in Newfoundland which changed consumption patterns in Ireland and across Europe; and shifting climatic conditions and decades of over-exploitation which meant fewer fish and poorer catches. Overall, the book reveals that fisheries form a vital part of the broader environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800105713
• Artikelnr.: 69026071

Autorenporträt

Patrick Hayes completed his doctorate at Trinity College, Dublin

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary of Fish Species Introduction 1. The Development of Fisheries,
1400-1500 2. Diversity and Cooperation in Sixteenth-Century Fisheries 3.
The Fish Trade 4. The Impact of War and Piracy 5. Fish Consumption and
Provisioning 6. Oceanographic Variation and Environmental Change Conclusion
Appendices Bibliography Index