Zeese
Zeese is the name for any trawl in a broader sense. In a narrower sense is called Zeese a special net with trawl of 12 m mouth width, from Zeesen boats was towed. It is to be distinguished from the more special Tuckzeese , which was served with two boats.
Zeesen fishing with Zeesen boats was particularly common in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Pomeranian lagoon waters of the Baltic Sea.
functionality
For fishing, the boat drifted silently along with its sails tightly set and its sword raised almost across (dwars) in front of the wind. Always on the starboard side, the fishing gear with bottom trawl, the Zeese, pulled behind it in windward direction. The Zeese was aft on an over the aft Steven projecting rod, the drift tree, and the front of the jib boom attached and spread thereby.
Was Gezeest night without navigation lights . A drift lasted approx. 2 hours, depending on the size of the water, then we crossed back and started the next drift.
Historical development
Fishing with Zeesen boats reached its heyday in the second half of the 19th century. Stralsund was the center of Zeesen fishing with well over a hundred Zeesen boats. At the end of the 1920s, the first auxiliary engines were installed in Zeesen boats. B. were used to move the boat faster after a drift. For the actual fishing process, the towing of the Zeese under sail - with the boat drifting across the wind - motors were of no importance. After the Second World War, there was another renaissance of Zeesen fishing in the 1950s to the end of the 1960s, starting in the villages of the Barther Boddenkette. The fishing was done in the Rügen waters and in the Stralsund district, where this type of fishing under sail was only practiced occasionally at that time. Until the early 1980s, only a handful of fishermen had applied for a permit to fish with the drift sea. In the 1990s, trawling within the 3-mile zone was withdrawn from law. Only since 2002 has some enthusiasts from the Zeesener e. V., this old fishing technique, for the purpose of maintaining tradition and enriching tourism in the Fischland-Darss region, is again demonstrated annually as an experimental fishery.