Butt digging
Butt digging is an old fishing technique from East Friesland . It is similar in its application to the buttpedden .
origin
The name is a combination of the term butt , which is used to describe various types of flatfish in East Friesland, as well as the Low German word grabbeln , which means groping with your fingers or groping, digging around with your fingers .
When the tide was digging, one or more people with sacks of potatoes went barefoot into the Wadden Sea when the tide set in . There she studied the tidal creeks on where they flounder , plaice and other flatfish suspected. There they caught the animals by hand and then kept them in the potato sack they carried with them. This method was still in use until the 1960s. The stocks are now considered overfished.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wulf Sander: Grab the flounder: using nimble hands to catch flatfish in the mudflats according to the old custom . In: Ostfreesland: Calendar for Ostfriesland . Norden 2013, ISBN 978-3-944841-05-2 . Pp. 96-97
- ↑ Alfred Wegener Institute (Ed.): Leben im Watt - Scholle ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed December 27, 2014
- ↑ Duden: grave . Accessed December 27, 2014.
- ↑ Max Dem of Borne: Handbook of fish farming and fishing . Berlin 1886. p. 484
- ↑ Jürgen Knaack ( Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation [NLWKN]): Quality monitoring . Accessed December 27, 2014.
