Fish and sustainability

You should attempt to identify common themes linking the 4 papers, summarise and critique the arguments
presented and consider how the set of papers contribute to the sustainability debate.
Barrett, JH, Locker, AM and Roberts, CM. 2004. ‘’Dark Age Economics’ revisited: the English fish bone
evidence AD 600-1600’, Antiquity78, 618-636
Erlandson, JM and Rick, TC. 2010. ‘Archaeology meets marine ecology: The antiquity of maritime cultures and
human impacts on marine fisheries and ecosystems’, Annual Review of Maritime Science 2: 165-185 (although
the UHI doesn’t appear to subscribe to this, the authors have provided a copy on researchgate.net)
Jackson JBC et al. 2001. ‘Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems’, Science 293:
629–38
Pitcher, TJ and Lam, ME. 2015. ‘Fish commoditization and the historical origins of catching fish for profit’,
Maritime Studies 14:2
Key texts:
Rick, T.C. and Erlandson, J.M. 2008. Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems. Berkley: University of
California Press.
Sickling, L. and Abreu-Ferreira, D. 2009. Beyond the Catch: Fisheries of the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-

1850. Leiden: Brill.
      Further reading:
      Coull, J. R. 1999. Penetrating and monitoring the market: The development of the Continental market for
      Scottish herring in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scottish Economic and Social History 19.2,
      117-131.
      Coull, J. R. 2007. Fishing, Fishermen, Fish Merchants and Curers in Shetland. Lerwick: Shetland Amenity
      Press.
      Lyman, R.L. and Cannon, K.P. 2004. Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology. Salt Lake City: University of
      Utah Press.
      Jackson, J.B.C. et al. 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293,
      629-638.
      Jahnke, C. 2009. The Medieval herring fishery in the Western Baltic, pp. 157-186 in Sickling, L. and AbreuFerreira, D. (eds), Beyond the Catch: Fisheries of the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850. Leiden: Brill.
      Richards, R. and Trinkhaus, E. 2009. Isotopic evidence for the diet of European Neanderthals and early
      modern humans. PNAS 106, 16034-16039
      Roberts, C. 2007. An unnatural history of the sea. Island Press
      Roman, J. and Palumbi, S.R. 2003. ‘Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic’. Science 310: 508-510.
      Steele, R. 2010. A unique hominin menu dated to 1.95 million years ago. PNAS 107, 10771-10772.
      Lorentzen, T. and Hannesson, R. 2006. The collapse of the Norwegian herring fisheries in the 1960s and
      1970s: crisis, adaptation and recovery, pp. 33-65 in Hannesson, R. (et al., eds.), Climate Change and the
      Economics of the World’s Fisheries. Cheltenham: GLOBEC.
      http://sites.scran.ac.uk/secf_final/silver/index.php

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