The Danish fish fauna during the warm Atlantic period (ca. 7,000-3,900 BC): forerunner of future changes?

• Main Authors: Inge B. Enghoff, Brian R. Mackenzie, Einar Eg Nielsen
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Pressures; impacts; conservation; and management; CM 2007/E; Atlantic period; Mesolithic; Stone Age; fish fauna; biodiversity; cod; Baltic Sea; Kattegat; North Sea; climate change; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25257721.v2

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Vast amounts of fish bone lie preserved in Denmark’s soil as remains of prehistoric fishing. Fishing was particularly important during the Atlantic period (ca. 7,000-3,900 BC, i.e., part of the Mesolithic Stone Age). At this time, s...