Žvejyba Pietryčių Lietuvos vandenyse XIII–XIV a.
Fishing in Lithuania’s South-Eastern Waters in the 13th–14th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to summarize data, collected during the archeological and palaeozoological research, about fishing in Lithuania’s South-eastern waters in the 13th–14th centuries. In the 13th–14th centuries fishing, contrary to hunting, was available to people from various social positions, and fish products became basic everyday food for the majority of people. The author points to the fact that no means of water transport, dated by the 13th–14th centuries, could be discovered in South-eastern Lithuania. People used to fish in the nearest water pools. The analysis of fish bones and scales discovered in Vilnius, Kernavė, and Maišiagala regions helped identify the following kinds of fish: Atlantic sturgeon, Northern pike, perch, chub, bleak or riffle minnow, dace, European roach, red-eye, Rudd, cod, common beam and silver beam. Undoubtedly, other kinds of fish were also caught, but not all of their bones survived; in addition, it is difficult to identify fish without scales. Some kinds of fish, Atlantic sturgeon for example, are now extinct.

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