>Sharp climate cooling in the late 1500s, reaching a low around 1600, contributed to declining western Baltic herring stocks. Cooling combined with overfishing and competition to collapse the fishery, disrupting the salted-herring trade that supported Hanseatic wealth. Herring fishing shifted toward the North Sea.Are we back?
>>62761676No wonder sardines are always out of stock
>>62761676Fishing must've been dangerous back then with random fishes carrying halberds on them. Never knew when you'd get stabbed by some sneaky bastard
>>62761676Interesting. I always wondered why the Hanseatic League declined suddenly.
>he who controls the herring, controls the world
>>62761699This is some irc chatbot shit.
>Herring stocks in the central Baltic Sea have declined by over 70 percent between 1966 and 2024. In 2024, industrial fishing accounted for just over 90 percent of the Swedish catch of herring and sprat—catches that are turned into fishmeal and oil and used as animal feed in salmon farms and chicken farms. At the same time, researchers and coastal fishermen report that herring have become smaller—it is increasingly difficult to catch large herring for human consumption. A four-year-old herring weighed an average of 33 grams in 2023, which is barely half of what it weighed in 1980. At the same time, herring are reaching sexual maturity at an earlier age.Buy low
>>62761924You're a newfag that's why you're surprised by the answer to a reddit thread like this
>>62761943Chemicals in the water turning herring into twinks?
>>62761699I noticed that too.
>>62762383Just evolution. Bigger herring get caught in nets. Smaller herring don’t have to compete for food with big herring anymore. Better to be small than big.
