Oyster fishing
The oyster fishery is used to catch oysters in the North and Baltic Seas .
history
In the Wadden Sea , the Limfjord and other flat areas of the North and Baltic Seas, there were natural oyster beds on which the European oyster was found. These oyster beds belonged to the respective sovereigns who leased the use. The tenants, in turn, had sub-tenants who ran the banks. In the North Frisian Wadden Sea, oyster fisheries were mainly carried out by boatmen from Amrum , Sylt and Rømø . They each had a pre-fisherman who organized the fishing. In the 19th century there were still around 50 oyster beds in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, the most important of which were east of Sylt, near Amrum, the Halligen and near Föhr . Fishing usually started around September 1st and lasted until April or May. The boats dragged the so-called oyster dishes over the oyster bank and caught the oysters in it. The banks were examined in August.
Since the oyster beds were owned by the state, they were carefully controlled to prevent overfishing , and accurate figures have been available for annual catches since the early 18th century . Nevertheless, the catch results fell so far around 1880 that the catch had to be temporarily stopped. In 1892 he was resumed. In the 1920s and 1930s the European oysters finally disappeared from the Wadden Sea; oyster fishing ceased until oysters were released again in the 1970s.
See also
literature
- Martin Rheinheimer : The bunk man. People and the sea in the Wadden Sea 1860–1900. Neumünster 2007, ISBN 978-3-529-02776-5 .
- Henrik Kröyer: De danske Östersbanker, et bidrag til Kundskab om Danmarks Fiskerier. Kjöbenhavn 1837.
- Karl Moebius: The oyster and the oyster industry. Berlin 1877.