Fishing and Tuna Trade in Kyzikos

This chapter is based upon our effort to provide an integrated approach of the fisheries sector within a Greek prefecture, which is characterized as «lagging behind in development». So that the issue of "delayed development" provides a specific context for elaborating our arguments with respect to the trajectories and policy issues regarding the fisheries sector.

Karia and the Dodekanese. Cultural Interrelations in the South-East Aegean. Vol. II: Early Hellenistic to Early Byzantine, edited by P. Pedersen, B. Poulsen & J. Lund, 65-77. Oxford: Oxbow. , 2021

Coastal Management, 2010

Marine aquaculture in Turkey has been rapidly growing during the last two decades in the coastal zone. This growth has led the government to take measures to reduce environmental degradation. After the new regulation for aquaculture, in 2007, most sea farm cages were relocated from shallow water to relatively deeper areas in Gulluk Bay. In this study a spatial analysis of marine fish farming was performed, using several GIS data layers to assess Allocated Aquaculture Zone (AZA) and to monitor operations. A spatial analysis of fish farming the Gulluk Bay in the context of the other major sea users and their relative percentages in the sea use pattern were determined. The Allocated Aquaculture Zone (AZA) amounted to 20.8 % of total water surface area; licensed cage areas occupied 0.45%, trawl areas 34.4%, important natural areas 35.4% and multiusage zones the rest. The study used water quality index (TRIX) data for evaluation in conjunction with GIS. The study shows how different terrestrial and marine activities interact with each other, and that certain areas are subject to layers of multiple usages and water quality index (TRIX) data was evaluated by using a GIS.

Anthropozoologica 56.2, 2021

Fishing for tunas in the Aegean goes back several millennia. Their bones are found in archaeological excavations and their biology, capture, processing and consumption are described in written sources of the historical era. The archaeology of tuna fishing, however, is still poorly understood and its economic importance in Eastern Mediterranean has only recently been explored. This paper contributes to the emerging discourse around tunas and their economic and cultural significance by attempting an in depth understanding of tunas and related fish species, as a resource. It presents in some detail the biology and ethology of tunas, which are crucial factors to their exploitation by humans. These features control the timing and location of their appearance and they render certain fishing and processing methods more appropriate than others. The paper also discusses some of the implication of the biological features of tunas and related species on their fisheries and to the development of cultural values around them. It also considers the heuristic value of these observations in the archaeological research. The examination of the biological characteristics of tunas and related members of the Scombridae family suggests that their exploitation should in fact be seen not as the capture of single species but of a range of different species, which share certain common characteristics, but differ in terms of size, migration timing, processing potential, or quality of flesh. In this framework the exploitation of the migratory fish, of which tuna is the most emblematic, appears as an articulate activity, which was less vulnerable to yearly fluctuations in the presence of fish schools at any given fishing location. Being thus complex and flexible it provided economic opportunities and it acquired significant cultural value for the Eastern Mediterranean cultures diachronically.

Indonesian Fisheries Research Journal, 2017

Construction of a fishing port requires special conditions to be properly developed. The right choice of location from the land and water aspects is the basic requirement to build a fishing port facilities.

Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration

This article analyses the ups and downs of Kendari port development since 1831 until Japanese occupation ended in Indonesia. This study tries to place Kendari port as the main port with areas that become the link of traditional and modern trade routes at the east coast of Sulawesi. Moreover, Kendari has become Collecting Center port since the 16th century, therefore, the connectivity between Kendari port and other regions is quite close. This study used primary source in the form of official record of the colonial government and secondary source in the form of publication related to the topic of the study. The study found that traditionally the trade relation of Kendari port with other regions originated from two routes, namely Wawonii island and Bokori island, while in the colonial period the role of the Dutch government made Kendari as a modern port so that the port developed rapidly as one of the links for KPM shipping and trade and Bugis traders who were still active until the 2...

Fan Fao Aquaculture Newsletter, 2009

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2023

This article proposes a reassessment of the role that Kios played as a nexus of trade between the northern Aegean, the Black Sea and inland northwest Anatolia. The city was founded as an emporium at the end of the seventh century BC and joined the Delian League in the following century. The autonomous city was subsequently ruled by a Persian dynasty during the fourth century BC, while retaining its Greek identity. Three groups of ceramics will be analysed for this reassessment: one from rescue excavations at Kios itself; another from surveyed sites in the surrounding region; and a third from other excavated settlements. It is argued that both locally-produced fine wares and transport amphoras allow chronological periods to be traced to relatively high resolutions, and that these reveal Kios to have been a significant market town that was deeply involved in trade with the Aegean and the Black Sea.