The Danish fisheries c.1450-1800. Medieval and early modern ...

conceivably have altered the marine habitat and caused a long-term decline in inshore
fisheries. However, there is no study to substantiate this possibility, and as the evidence
stands, there is no immediate correlation to be found. After all, the Dutch fisheries in the
North Sea were thriving while the West Jutland fisheries in the same sea were abandoned.
Human and environmental factors were at play, and marine environmental historians need to
join forces with historical environmental scientists to make sense of a complicated pattern.
ROM edition) for an updated discussion). The worst weather seems to have occurred in the
latter part of the seventeenth century. An international climatological project will produce
new evidence on these phenomena in the next few years (information from the Danish
Meteorological Institute).