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Crail and Its Fisheries

其他書名	1550-1600
出版	Strathmartine Press, 2016
主題	Architecture / History / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN	09955441079780995544109
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=M0CJvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋La 4e de couv. indique : "Crail is an ancient Scottish trading and fishing burgh, situated in East Fife at the outermost edge of the Firth of Forth. Its medieval coat of arms is the earliest depiction of a herring fishing boat in Europe. In this book, Professor Thomas Riis of the University of Kiel, shows how fishing operations were organised in the sixteenth century. The dangerous waters of the Northern Isles and in the Minch attracted in late autumn the fishers of herring and cod from the whole of East Fife, but particularly from Crail. Their financial backers were local merchants, or sometimes capitalists from the Edinburgh area: the wood for the barrels was brought to Crail by the coopers directly from Norway: and the catch, cured with Scottich or French salt, was often sold in Baltic cities like Danzig. Using the Crail burgh court books, he has reconstructed in remarkable detail the economic ventures of brave and enterprising Scots in the century of the Reformation."