By c. 1990, worldwide captures of marine fish reached the limit of what the oceans could provide, given the extractive methods currently available and the limited nature of all marine living resources. The majority of fish stocks globally have since been either fully exploited or over-overexploited (FAO, 2020). During the last millennium, European marine fisheries have risen in five distinct temporal steps, around 1000 AD, after 1500 AD, after 1750, again after 1880 and lastly after 1950. Archaeologists understand the first step as the "fish event horizon," indicated by a rise in volumes of marine fish bones in human settlement sediments around