England's Sea Fisheries

by Starkey, David J.; Reid, Chris; Ashcroft, Neil

• ISBN13: 9781861761248
• ISBN10: 1861761244
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal

Summary

Fish and fishermen have played a fundamental role in the provision of food in England for the last 1,000 years and this work sets out to get to the heart of every aspect of England's fisheries. Fishing has always been a complex human activity. Seafood and diet, the curing and preservation of fish and its distribution, fish farming from monastic institutions to the modern hi-tech methods and aquaculture, boats and gear, catching methods, the social structures of fishing communities, the Missions to deep-sea fishermen, the development of harbors and docks, fish protection against the background of ecological collapse, and the fishermen's skills set against such a dangerous occupation - these are just some of the themes which are covered.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Editors' Acknowledgements	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
The Common North Atlantic Pool	p. 9
Fish Production, Trade and Consumption, c1300-1530	p. 18
Fishing and Fisheries in the Middle Ages	p. 19
The Eastern Fisheries	p. 19
The Western Fisheries	p. 23
The Internal and International Fish Trades of Medieval England and Wales	p. 29
The Internal Fish Trade	p. 29
Control, Conflict and International Trade	p. 32
'Take This Penance Now, and Afterwards the Fare will Improve': Seafood and Late medieval Diet	p. 36
Harvesting a Free Resource, c1530-1880	p. 45
State Concern for the Fisheries, 1485-1815	p. 46
The Herring Fisheries in the Early Modern Period: Lowestoft as Microcosm	p. 54
The Herring Fisheries, 1750-1900	p. 64
The Line and Trawl Fisheries in the Age of Sail	p. 72
Inshore and Local Fisheries, c1530 to 1880	p. 81
Inshore Fisheries of the South West, c1530-1630	p. 82
The South West Pilchard, Trawl and Mackerel Fisheries, 1770-1850	p. 85
Load Diversity in Wakes c1530-1880	p. 87
The Yorkshire Coast, 1780-1880	p. 91
The Distant-Water Fisheries of South West England in the Early Modern Period	p. 96
Fisheries to the East and to the West	p. 96
The Newfoundland Trade	p. 100
England's Icelandic Fishery in the Early Modern Period	p. 105
Fish and Fishers Ashore, c1850-2000	p. 111
Following the Fish: Nineteenth-Century Migration and the Diffusion of Trawling	p. 112
An Antiquated Relationship? Trawler Owners and Trawlermen, c1880-1980	p. 119
Fishing Communities, 1850-1950	p. 127
Social and Spiritual Work amongst Fishing Communities	p. 138
Dock and Harbour Provision for the Fishing Industry since the Eighteenth Century	p. 146
From Trawler to Table: The Fish Trades Since the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 157
Altered Images: Representing the Trawling in the Late Twentieth Century	p. 166
Fishing Within Limits Since c1880	p. 173
Government, Science and the Fisheries	p. 174
Local Fisheries Administration since 1888	p. 174
Fisheries Research in England and Wales, 1850-1980	p. 179
From Boom to Bust: The Herring Industry in the Twentieth Century	p. 188
Fisheries of the Westcountry and Wales, c1850 to 2000	p. 197
The Westcountry	p. 197
The Welsh Fisheries	p. 201
Steam Power and Distant-Water Trawling	p. 206
The Diminishing Commons: Politics, War and Territorial Waters in the Twentieth Century	p. 217
Adaptation and Change in the Fishing Industry since the 1970s	p. 227
An International Perspective on Britain's Fisheries in the New Millennium	p. 235
Abbreviations	p. 242
Notes	p. 242
Index	p. 268
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