Fishing, Consumption, and Processing of Fish and Shellfish in the Eastern Adriatic through the Long Middle Ages

• Sabine Florence Fabijanec ^[1]
  1. [1] Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

     Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

     Croacia

     
• Localización: Imago temporis. Medium Aevum, ISSN 1888-3931, Nº. 15, 2021, págs. 167-191
• Idioma: catalán
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  • The article first presents a review of historical evidence on the presence and use of different species of fish in the eastern Adriatic (statutes and other normative sources, notarial documents, travelogues, literary sources, etc.). Secondly, it provides a survey of the fishing grounds found along the Croatian shoreline. The third part briefly summarizes some of the basic rules and the evolution of fishing techniques. The last part deals with the market and some aspects of domestic life in terms of the processing and consumption of various underwater species (tuna fish, shellfish and corals).