Glückstadt herring fishery

Shipyard drawing of a typical fishing logger , the sailing logger Stör of the Glückstadt herring fishery, built 1893 to 1894

Motor logger Balder handing over food supplies to the logger Saxnot - built in 1934 at Norderwerft Hamburg for the Glückstadt herring fishery. Wrecked in 1969.

The Glückstädter herring fishing AG was founded in 1893 and had 1976 as the last logger Fish Society will be closed.

The first fishing season could already take place in 1894, it was fished with sailing loggers . In 1930 the company went bankrupt and the loggers were taken over by the Emden logger fishing companies. The new beginning succeeded in 1934 and until 1969 the Glückstadt loggers drove out for every fishing season. 1969 marks the end of the Glückstadt driftnet fishery for herrings, which were thrown at sea - salted in wooden barrels, called Kantje in technical language , matured and marketed. In addition to the dramatic decline in herring stocks, it was also becoming increasingly difficult to find crews for the extreme working conditions on the loggers.

literature

• Dieter Finnern: Knowledge store, fishing expertise . 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Transpress, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00359-3 .
• Gerhard Köhn: Sea thrown & sea salted. Logger fishing off the German North Sea coast. In memory of the Glückstadt herring fishery founded 100 years ago. Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1994, ISBN 3-87902-800-1 .
• Jens Rösemann: Kok-in-Ruum on the herring logger. A youth at sea or the pursuit of perfection. Johann Heinrich Döll, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-88808-227-7 .

Web links

• Herring fishing
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Glückstadt herring fishery in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .