The Portuguese Fisheries in the late Medieval and Early Modern Period. Political and economic developments

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Inês Amorim (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Studia Atlantica

Vol. 6

Pages: 33-52

ISSN: 1396-6294

Publisher: Bergen Museum Vest

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > History and Archaeology

CORDIS: Humanities > History ; Natural sciences > Environmental science > Natural resources management

Other information

Abstract (EN): The aims of this paper are: to show how the influence of the position of Portugal (climate rate, coastline, continental platform, and ecosystems) limited the Portuguese fisheries to an artisanal-type of fishing; to observe the evolution of political framework from a traditional and fiscal point a view to a real political economy; to analyse the economic signals of one economic organisation; to emphasise the consequences of the oscillations of the international fishing market which sustained a changing of the inland Portuguese fishery in the later XVIIIth century

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific