Other factors, such as attacks by hostile Inuit (which, according to parish records, resulted in at least three instances of fatalities between 1575 and 1618), piratical attacks by the English and Dutch, and the opening of the Spitsbergen fishery (see below) may have also played a part in the decline.
Drugi čimbenici, poput napada neprijateljski nastrojenih Inuita (koji su, prema zapisima, rezultirali poginulima u najmanje tri instance između 1575. i 1618.), gusarskih napada engleskih i nizozemskih brodova i otvaranja ribarstva na Spitsbergenu, su također mogli imati ulogu u opadanju.