Author Topic: Fishing unaffected by season.  (Read 9059 times)

vonGenf

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Re: Fishing unaffected by season.
« Topic Start: June 02, 2011, 09:58:54 AM »
Yes, but these migrations often do not coincide with the crop harvest season. Cod, for example, migrates in the winter, and medieval Europe traded heavily in dried and salted cod (as well as other stockfish), as it lasts for several years without refrigeration. Overall, I think food production from the sea would be constant over the seasons, as "fishing" represents a variety of seafood collection (including perhaps whaling, I imagine, and I can't even begin to tell you how lucrative and useful that is), rather than a particular species of fish.

"Europe", as a whole, probably has a large enough variety of fish to fish all year long, but any particular region won't. The seasons will not be the same, but there are definitely seasons to fishing.

Whales are migratory too, so there is a whaling season.
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