These activities, in turn, stimulated shipbuilding, steadily enlarging the demand for fishing and merchant craft of every kind and thus keeping the shipwrights, caulkers, rope makers, and other artisans of the seaport towns rushed with work.

这些活动反过来又刺激造业，稳步对渔业和各的需求， 从而使海港城镇的造工、填缝工、绳索制造和其他工匠忙于工作。