Cutter fish

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Cutter fish
legal form GmbH
founding 1964
Seat Cuxhaven
management Kai-Arne Schmidt, Michael Seidel
Number of employees 95
sales 34 million euros (2017)
Branch Fishing shipping company , fish processing , fish trade
Website www.kutterfisch.de

Bianca (NC 312)
Iris (NC 300)
J. von Cölln (NC 308)
Susanne (NC 120)
West Bank (SAS 110)

Kutterfisch is a fishing , fish processing and fish marketing company founded in 1964with headquarters in Cuxhaven and a branch in Sassnitz . Kutterfisch operates small deep-sea fishing .

Foundation and history

The company was founded on December 8, 1964 as a cooperative processing company of the Nordsee eG producers' association and was initially called Kutterfisch - Verwertung Finkenwerder - Lübecker Bucht GmbH . The aim of the foundation was to reduce the sales risk of the individual fishermen in the small deep-sea fishery through joint purchasing and joint marketing . Cutterfish took the landed catches from the fishermen, which were not bought by wholesalers at the fish auctions at a minimum price.

Over the years the shareholders changed several times and in 1986 the name of the company: In December 1966 the Kutterfisch eGmbH Cuxhaven and the Fischergenossenschaft Schlutup joined, in August 1978 the Fischergenossenschaft Maasholm took over the shares of the Kutterfisch eGmbH Cuxhaven and in 1973 the fish processing company Kieler Förde eG became as well as the fishing cooperative Fehmarn shareholder of Kutterfisch . The next changes were made from 1986: Kutterfisch Cuxhaven eG re- entered in January of that year, and in February the company changed its name to Kutterfisch Cuxhaven eG . With the departure of the Baltic Sea communities Maasholm, Kiel, Heiligenhafen, Fehmarn and Travemünde, Kutterfisch relocated the company headquarters to Cuxhaven. In January 1993, after Bremerhavener Kutterfischer eG joined the company, the three cooperatives merged to form the Nordsee eG producer group . Kutterfisch is a 100% subsidiary of this producer group.

Structure and operation of cutterfish

The company is divided into Kutterfisch-Zentrale GmbH based in Cuxhaven and the subsidiaries Salz- und Trockenfisch GmbH , Kutter- und coastal fish Rügen in Sassnitz and the supplier company Cux-Trawl in Cuxhaven, which was founded in 1992 . In 1998, Kutterfisch began to build up its own fishing fleet; As of 2020, the fleet consisted of ten large cutters for small-scale deep-sea fishing, all of which sail under the German flag and have their home ports in Cuxhaven and Sassnitz.

The fishing areas of the North Sea cutters extend in the central North Sea from southern Norway over the Faroe Islands to Iceland , those of the Sassnitz cutters are located in the entire Baltic Sea . The duration of a fishing trip in the North Sea is six to eight days, in the Baltic Sea one to days, each cutter travels 35 to 40 times a year to catch. Above all, plaice, saithe and sprat are caught in the North Sea, while cod, herring and sprats are caught in the Baltic Sea. The total catch was around 14,200 tons in 2016 and around 14,900 tons in 2017.

The catches are landed in the North Sea in Hanstholm, Denmark, with further transport to Cuxhaven or directly in Cuxhaven for further processing. In the Baltic Sea, the landings take place at the subsidiary Kutter- und coastal fish in Sassnitz. There the catch is loaded into the company's own trucks and delivered to processing companies, customers or auction sites. In Cuxhaven, Kutterfisch operates one of the largest processing plants for fresh fish in Germany. Around 4500 tons of fish are filleted there every year. Kutterfisch markets around 40 percent of its catch itself in the company's own sales outlets in Cuxhaven and Sassnitz, and around 60 percent goes to wholesalers.

The company gives different information on the number of employees: for 2016 and 2017 it names 95 employees, 55 of them on board the cutters, who generated sales of 32 and 34 million euros, respectively, and at the same time the number of 250 employees was named, which is around 80 million euros Sales achieved.

sustainability

The aspects of overfishing, sustainability in fishing and environmental protection at sea are of great importance to the company. Another reason is consumer behavior, which means that non-certified catches can hardly be sold on the German market. Therefore, in 2008, Kutterfisch had the path from catching to processing to sale documented and verifiably verifiable, and received the MSC seal for saithe in 2008 and for herring in 2015 from the Marine Stewardship Council . In addition, Kutterfisch was certified with the Naturland organic seal in 2017 been.

As a further step, Kutterfisch supports the “ Stop Discard ” project, in which by-catches are no longer thrown overboard because the fish are usually already dead. By-catches should generally be reduced significantly. Kutterfisch achieves this with larger mesh sizes that go beyond the legal requirements. At the same time, the company has equipped half of the cutters with cameras to document the bycatch or its disposal and is calling for a ban on illegal and undocumented fishing.

fleet

Status: May 2020

Surname Construction year Shipyard Length Width measurement
Antares (SAS 211) 1985 Lübbe Voss, Westerende-Kirchloog 20.54 / 6.20 132 GT
Blue whale (SAS 295) 1958 Elbewerft Boizenburg , Boizenburg 26.45 / 6.71 126 GT
Christin-Bettina (SAS 111) 1983 Lübbe Voss , Westerende-Kirchloog 25.05 / 6.25 152 GT
Sea Wolf (NC 309) 1985 Sieghold shipyard , Bremerhaven 30.34 / 7.80 261 GT
J. von Cölln (NC 308) 1987 Sietas , Hamburg 40.26 / 8.48 459
West Bank (SAS 110) 1990 Lübbe Voss, Westerende-Kirchloog 19.40 / 6.30 107 GT
Victoria (NC 315) 2004 Karstensens Skibsværft , Skagen 37.05 / 10.0 507 GT
Janne-Kristin , (NC 333) 2018 Nodosa , Marín , Spain 35.0 / 10.0 680 GT
Iris (NC 302) 20/19 Nodosa, Marín, Spain 35.0 / 10.0 680 GT
Stay true (SH1) 1992 Visser, Den Helder, Netherlands

literature

  • Nik Schumann: Cuxhaven, the big deep sea fishery and the sea fish market. Verlag August Rauschenplat, Cuxhaven 2008, ISBN 3-935519-29-X .
  • cutter. Anniversary edition 50 years of Kutterfisch. (Kutterfisch-Zentrale customer magazine), Cuxhaven 2014 ( online version as PDF ).
  • Hans-Peter Rodenberg: See in Need. The greatest source of food on the planet: an inventory. Marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-936384-49-5 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Schumann, p. 229.
  2. ↑ Cutterfish: History
  3. ↑ cf. Website of "Cux-Trawl"
  4. ↑ cf. also: Kutterfisch customer magazine. P. 14f.
  5. ↑ Cutterfish: fishing areas
  6. ↑ Sustainability report. P. 6.
  7. ↑ Cutterfish: Processing
  8. ↑ Sustainability report. P. 5 versus Cuxhavener Nachrichten of October 31, 2015
  9. ↑ Norddeutscher Rundfunk August 23, 2018: Baltic herring loses MSC sustainability seal
  10. ↑ Sustainability report. Pp. 9-15.