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🐟 What sank the Baltic herring trade
A 450 year catch record shows the fishery that once funded medieval Europe's salted fish trade collapsed from climate shifts, overfishing and economics together, not any one cause.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41893-026-01937-1
#History #Fisheries #Baltic #Ecology 🧪
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An historic fishery collapse driven by socioeconomic and environmental factors - Nature Sustainability
The collapse of the western Baltic herring fishery by the year 1570 caused large disruptions. Using a time series of Baltic herring catches spanning 450 years, this study examined the socioeconomic an...
