The Story of Crucian Carp in the Baltic Sea region: History and a Possible Future
Project leader
Ingvar Svanberg, PhD
Project Participants
Håkan Olsén, Madeleine Bonow, Johanna Wouters, Sven Jansson, in cooperation with James Bond (Oxford), Stanisław Cios (Warszawa), Haik Thomas Porada (Leipzig), Erik Hofmeister (Århus), Anne Karin Hufthammer (Bergen), Dagfinn Moe (Bergen)
Project period
2010 – 2016
Project description
The overall purpose of this research project is to focus, in an interdisciplinary perspective, on the history and current status of crucian carp, Carassius carassius (L.), in the Baltic Sea region, and to evaluate the species´ future potential in aquaculture on a local basis. It is very likely that the escalating problems in world fisheries and aquaculture based on predatory fish will result in increasing interest in omnivorous and herbivore species. This will give species such as crucian carp and tench (Tinca tinca L.) a renaissance as a food source in the northern hemisphere. The project is composed of three closely interlinked parts. One part is based on the history of the crucian carp in human use and the second part on its possible future use in aquaculture. The third part of the project will focus on the origin and routes of spreading of crucian carp in Sweden and the Baltic region. Conversely, natural populations of crucian carp threatened due to secondary invasion of lakes and coastal regions can be recognized
Related publications
Sven Jansson, Johanna Wouters, Madeleine Bonow, Ingvar Svanberg & Håkan Olsén,”A microsatellite analysis of crucian carp (Carassius carassius) from historic fish ponds”. Journal of Fish Biology (under review)
Håkan Olsén & Ingvar Svanberg “History and future of cyprinid aquaculture in the Baltic Rim”, chapter for History of Aquaculture in the Baltic Rim, eds. M. Bonow, H. Olsén and I. Svanberg (forthcoming)
Madeleine Bonow & Ingvar Svanberg, "»Our Nation should give more thought to this practice«: Historical Pond-Breeding of Cyprinids in Sweden and Finland”, chapter for History of Aquaculture in the Baltic Rim, eds. M. Bonow, H. Olsén and I. Svanberg (forthcoming)
Madeleine Bonow, Stanisław Cios and Ingvar Svanberg “Fish Ponds in the Baltic States: Historical Cyprinid Culture in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania”, chapter for History of Aquaculture in the Baltic Rim, eds. M. Bonow, H. Olsén and I. Svanberg (forthcoming)
Gunilla Lindell & Ingvar Svanberg, Insjöfisk: recept och kulturhistoria. Stockholm: Molin & Sorgenfrei (in press)
Madeleine Bonow & Ingvar Svanberg, "»Rudor finnas öfverflödigt«: Fiskdammar vid svenska prästgårdar på 1600- och 1700-talet". Saga och Sed: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademiens Årsbok 2013 (2014, in press)
Ingvar Svanberg & Stanisław Cios, "Petrus Magni and the history of fresh-water aquaculture in the later Middle Ages". Archives of Natural History 41:1 (2014), pp. 124 –130.
Madeleine Bonow & Ingvar Svanberg, "Monastisk fiskodling i Sverige", Paper presented at Biskop Brask 1513–2013. Seminarium om biskop Brasks handskrift Kh54 och det tidiga1500-talets svenska mat och hushållning, Måltidshistoriskt seminarium 5–6 november 2013, Östergötlands Museum, Linköping.
Madeleine Bonow & Ingvar Svanberg, ”Karpfiskarnas tillbakagång i svenskt kosthåll”, pp. 91–114 in Mat: essäer från aktuell livsmedelsforskning, red. Madeleine Bonow, Paulina Rytkönen och Per Wramner ( = COMREC Studies on Environment and Development 7). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2013.
Ingvar Svanberg, Madeleine Bonow & Håkan Olsén, Fish ponds in Scania, and Linnaeus’s attempt to promote aquaculture in Sweden", Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift 2012, pp. 83–98.
Madeleine Bonow & Ingvar Svanberg, "Uppländska ruddammar: ett bidrag till akvakulturens historia", Uppland: Årsbok 2012, pp. 123–152.
Ingvar Svanberg, ”Fisk i konsten” [Review of:] Christine E. Jacksons Fish in Art (Reaktion Books, 2012. Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift 2012, p. 165.
Madeleine Bonow & Ingvar Svanberg, ”»Säj får jag dig bjuda ur sumpen en sprittande ruda«: en bortglömde läckerhet från gångna tiders prästgårdskök”, pp. 147–169 in Gastronomins (politiska) geografi, red. Madeleine Bonow & Paulina Rytkönen (= Årsboken Ymer årg. 141). Stockholm: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, 2011.
Ingvar Svanberg, ”Från guldfiskskålar till oceanier” [Review of:] Bernd Brunner, The Ocean at Home: An illustrated history of the aquarium. Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift 2011, p. 163.
Ingvar Svanberg, [Review of:] Martin Giertz, Svenska prästgårdar: kulturarv, trädgårdar, byggnadsvård. Svenska Landsmål och Svenskt Folkliv Årg 133 (2010), pp. 208–209.
Stefan Lundberg & Ingvar, "The stone loach in Stockholm, Sweden and royal fish-ponds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries”, Archives of Natural History 37 (2010), pp. 150–160.
Major funding source
Östersjöstiftelsen/The foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Key words
Historical aquacultural, Baltic Rim