Empty herring fishery
The empty herring fishery was a logger fishery . It existed from 1905 to 1969. In its prime, 145 fishing trips per year were made.
Foundation and history
As early as 1769 the first attempts were made to set up a herring fishery in Leer . The second attempt was made around 1815 with the acquisition of a single herring buss (or herring buise ), the type of ship with which herring were fished in front of the logger . It was sold in 1819 due to the lack of subsidies. The empty herring fishery was founded in 1905 with the subscription of 1 million marks in share capital by 230 shareholders.
Start with five new loggers
In 1906 the first five new empty sailing loggers AL 1 - AL 5, which were equipped with a steam engine (100 HP), went to catch herring. They were commonly referred to as steam loggers, had a gross volume of 400 to 450 cubic meters, around 150 GRT and a capacity of 550 kantjes each . They were built by the shipyard C. Cassens in Emden and Johannsen & Co. in Danzig. By 1914 the fleet had grown to 14 steam loggers. Most of the new buildings were built by the C. Cassens shipyard in Emden and the Schulte & Bruns shipyard. Two newbuildings came from the GH Thyen shipyard in Brake .
Between the world wars
After the First World War , fishing for herring was started again in 1920, there were eleven steam loggers. In 1924, the Hermine (AL 18) was the first motor logger (100 HP, 600 Kantjes) to join the fleet. In 1930 five herring steamers were bought by the Bremen-Vegesack fishing company . Shortly afterwards, the Leerer Herringfischerei and the Bremen-Vegesacker Fischerei-Gesellschaft signed a cooperation agreement. In 1934 30 ships were already fishing for herring. In 1935 the cooperation agreement with the Bremen company was terminated. Fresh fish catching began in 1939, and the fleet was supplemented by three motor loggers with isolated cargo holds. The fish were put on ice after they were caught and landed in Geestemünde .
After the Second World War
During the Second World War , loggers were converted into outpost boats, four were lost, five were sold or scrapped for reasons of age. In 1946 there were still 19 ships, eight of which went fishing that year, the others were freed from military installations and dismantled. In 1949 all 19 ships were ready for traditional herring fishing again. Starting in 1963, fresh fish fishing was started again, which was operated with eight ships until 1965.
Decline and End (1969/1976)
From 1957 there was an increasingly closer cooperation with the Emden companies. The independence fell dramatically in 1958 with the sale of the shares held by the city of Leer. The fishing fleet of the empty herring fishery fluctuated greatly in the following years, but was ultimately reduced. The Empty Herring Fishery had eight ships in 1964, five ships in 1965, 11 ships again in 1966, eight in 1967, seven in 1968 and six in 1969. In 1969 the company was entered in the Bremerhaven commercial register, and the empty herring fishery was sold to Schulte & Bruns (Leer). In 1976 it was also deleted from the Bremerhaven commercial register.
literature
- Ellerich Bloem, Theo Schuster (Ed.): Hey geiht, hiev up! For herring catch in the North Sea. Schuster, Leer 1998, ISBN 3-7963-0336-6 .
- Dieter Finnern: Knowledge store, fishing expertise . 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Transpress, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00359-3 .
- 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
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the empty herring fishery in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herring fishing companies in four centuries ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Emden Marketing & Tourismus GmbH (accessed on July 23, 2010)
