Dollart herring fishery
The Dollart AG herring fishery in Emden was a logger fishery . It was founded in 1899 and merged with the Great Elector Herring Fishery in 1950 .
The actual herring fishing began in 1900 with eleven loggers and was continuously expanded. In 1907 there were 17 and in 1914 there were 19 loggers fishing for driftnets . After ship losses suffered in the First World War, nine loggers were used again in 1927, four of which were sailing and steam loggers and a motor logger. After 1927 the fleet was modernized, on the one hand the sailing loggers were taken out of service and on the other hand five new motor loggers were put into service by 1934 from a state-funded new construction program. In 1939 six steam loggers and seven motor loggers drove for the Dollart herring fishery. Of these, two motor loggers and one steam logger were lost in World War II.
On December 14, 1950, the company was merged with the Großer Kurfürst Heringsfischerei, also founded in Emden in 1904, because the shipping company Schulte & Bruns held the majority of shares in both companies . The Dollart herring fishery brought 10 loggers into the joint fleet. Declining profitability then led to the abandonment of the Emden logger fishing in 1969.
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
- Emden herring fishing companies in four centuries
- The herring fishery in Emden
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Dollart herring fishery in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .