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Fishing and the fish trade on the Dalmatian coast in the late Middle Ages

The historiography and the records from the state archives are very rich in information regarding the Croatian maritime world and fishing industry, even for the (late) medieval periods. Thanks to this documentation, it is possible to reconstruct many aspects of medieval fishing: the fishing zones, techniques, guild associations, everyday life at the fish markets and, finally, trade. The statistical records from the sixteenth century largely reflect the growing importance of the fishing industry. By this time, new fishing techniques had been introduced, and, as the result of Ottoman territorial pressure, the communes preferred to source food for their populations from the sea rather than the land, since acquiring food from inland areas was more hazardous. So, the communal authorities facilitated access for fishermen and eased restrictions on the fishing zones. This opening of the fishing industry even generated a surplus. The surplus fish could be dried, salted or preserved in brine and distributed to multiple centres across the Adriatic and the Aegean, thus providing significant income to the communal coffers

Fish, Trade, Dalmatia, Middle Ages

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