THE FISHING AND FISHING INCOME IN THE KILIA FISHGARTHS IN 1763
1763 YILINDA KİLİ DALYANLARINDA BALIK AVI VE AV GELİRLERİ

Author : Şenay ÖZDEMİR GÜMÜŞ
Number of pages : 36-74

Abstract

By the time the Kili entered to the Ottoman rule in 1484, the fishing income of the area became an important source for the Ottoman treasury. The fishing done in the fishgarths especially in the straits where the city was united with the blacksea had an important place in the fishing activities of the region. The morina and sturgeon had important commercial values were catched in these fishgarths. In the period when the city was captured, the fishgarths were administered by the name Kili Dalyanları Mukataası as an income unit dependent to the havass-ı hümayun. By the eighteenth century however, they were dependent to the Kili Nezareti ve Tevabii Mukataası. This study is about the fishing activities of the fishgarths in the miri status in the Kili in 1763. This paper is based on two registers which contain fishing notes of the these fisgarths covering the dates between April 15 and November 19, 1763. They contain on a daily basis the species and the quantities of the fishes captured in these fishgarths and the sale notes as well as the other fishing incomes collected within the borders of the Kili Nezareti. This study first examines the fishing activities of the Kili fishguarths, and the selling processes. Afterwards it evaluates the fiscal importance of the fishing income for the Kili Nezareti ve Tevabii Mukataası on the basis of the data contained in these registers.

Keywords

Kilia, Danube, Fishgarth, Fishing, Sturgeon

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