As the first steps of the Industrial Revolution took hold across England, other industries had already taken hold along the Atlantic coast. It was a laborious process that turned kelp into essential base chemicals, potash & lime, and was based along North Atlantic coast. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Human net of communities fishing in Wer warat of the #MalukuIslands, #Indonesia. A traditional fishing method involving a long rope bound with coconut leaves, used to enclose fish at low tide and let the whole community spear and net them.
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A fitting icon for Mesopotamian mythological fish-human Oannes, an Apkallu, or wise one, passing on antediluvian knowledge of culture and civilisation, teach humankind how to cultivate the soil, and offer sacrifice to the gods. #Assyrian #nimrud #iraq #coastalhistory #muSEAum

During this period, seaweeds Laminaria was burned in stone pits to produce ash rich in soda, potash, & later iodine. Seaweed utilisation by coastal communities in the Atlantic dates back to antiquity, being used as a food source, animal feed and also agricultural resource. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Kelp & wrack on the seashore? Nature's chemical storehouse & humans' chemical factory! B&W picture from Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland, 1900, showing seaweed such as Laminaria being collected and burnt in a stone kiln to produce soda, potash, Barilla and, later iodine. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Drawing of fish smoking in Kamchatka, Russia, 18th Century. This drawing comes from an 18th-century travel book, shows the Indigenous peoples #Itelmen, also called #Kamchadal, found in the #Arctic #Kamchatka Peninsula. It shows the process of butchering and smoking salmon. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

In the case of the ‘Lady Annesley’s traps’ a stone #fishweir located at Newcastle Beach. The beach, has a very gentle slope and an extensive intertidal zone of of almost 400 metres at average low tide, making it an ideal location for building intertidal structures. 2/2 #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Stone #fishweirs on the shore of Newcastle Beach Co. Down Northern Ireland/UK. The construction of stone fish weirs in the intertidal zone gives us a window into the knowledge and experience local fishing communities must have gathered over the ages. 1/2 #coastalhistory #muSEAum

From the salty sea to up in smoke! 18th century illustration of the smoking of #sardines/#herring in#France. A method of conserving protein, especially fish, that has been part of the human repertoire since the Palaeolithic and, in some respects, hasn't changed in ages. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Picture of a Thames wooden fish trap(7th to 8th century AD) at Isleworth in the London Borough of Hounslow faces downstream; Chelsea is facing upstream. Structurally, the traps appear to be part of a headwear and an ebb catch fish going up and down with the tides. #coastalhistory #muSEAum #fishtrap

By integrating insights from both disciplines, we gain a holistic understanding of how human societies interact with and impact their natural environments, equipping us to address the complex social and ecological issues that shape our planet’s future.

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Black and white photo of a fisherman from the island of #Pantelleria, off the coast of #Sicily, making a woven #fishtrap or #nassa. The conical traps had one entrance, allowing fish to swim in, investigate the bait, and find it hard to get out. Deployed with long lines. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Below ice fish trapping in Arctic and Subarctic. Examples of fish weirs in Siberia fished during frozen winters. Images of #Mansi #fishweir 1903 in a stream, #Janytshkova, #Siberia. The Mansi are an Ugric #indigenouspeople living in Khanty–Mansia Tyumen Oblast, #Russia.
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New blog released by team at the coasts in mind about research and community in the Swale estuary Kent.
Community cooperation on the Swale Estuary Coast
By Paul Montgomery and Harry Farmer
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#coastalhistory #muSEAum #CoastsInMind #Coastalhistory #whistableharbour #KentCoast

A B &W picture of fisherman in Sant Andreu de Llavanere,s Barcelona's northern suburbs, constructing nanses fish traps in a workshop in 1942. An area of traditional fishermen's neighbourhood (barri mariner), made fishing gear like traps (nanses) by hand. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

The oldest surviving map of the late Byzantine Constantinople (1422), showing the historical peninsula and harbors by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonte.
From:Description des îles de l'archipel, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris

#MaritimeHistory #CoastalHistory

#QuoteOfTheDay: 'a surviving fragment of red sandstone quay near the current Frodsham Mill is likely to have been the cheese-loading quay'

That's right, dear reader. #Frodsham in #Cheshire had a specific #cheese loading quay.

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An example of a fishing technique from Sweden in the early 20th century. Fishermen deploying a handheld stake or drift net into a small river, effectively blocking all fish, is ecologically damaging. Described in secondary literature as an illegal fishing method. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

An example of one of the stone #fishweir known as “shi hu”(石滬) from #Penghu, #Taiwan. On of huge number of stone weirs found along the shores of the #Penghu Islands.
Picture by Prof. 李明儒/Ming-Ju Lee
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Slive gold of the Bristol Channel! Atlantic Herring landed at ports and sometimes on the share in traps and nets as the sholes passed by in the season
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