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HERRING IS THE STAFF OF LIFE: REGULATION OF FISHERY AND FISH TRADE IN FLANDERS (LATE 14TH — EARLY 15TH CENTURIES)

2025· article· W4417486571 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUral Historical Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHistorical Economic and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHerringFishingFish <Actinopterygii>PopulationDutyQuarter (Canadian coin)

Abstract

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The article deals with a number of decrees of the Dukes of Burgundy Philip the Bold and John the Fearless concerning fishing and fish trade in Flanders. Sea fish played a considerable role in the diet of the inhabitants of this densely populated county. First of all its supplies were important to the population of large cities, such as Bruges. The sources of the late 14th — early 15th centuries show a trend to introduce regulations regarding the fish trade (Kortrijk), primarily wholesale, and the attempts of local authorities to prohibit the extortion of “gifts” from fishermen for access to the market (Kortrijk, Sluis). The regulations were used to control the quality of products that was the duty of special officials, and to obtain the opportunity to impose taxes on the fish trade. Several cities and towns were granted staple rights (Biervliet, Sluis), over which they could fight with each other, as in the case of Antwerp and Mechelen. By the late 14th century a new method of salting herring spread in Flanders. At that time herring began to be delivered to the county from the North Sea. It was gutted immediately after being caught and salted in barrels on ships, which allowed it to be stored for longer. The ducal ordinances also reflect the concern of the authorities about the declining number of sea fish. They tried to solve this problem using the ban of a certain type of net, which caused the fry to die.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.193
Threshold uncertainty score0.901

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.199
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it