The Hamenfischerei is called one of the umweltschonendesten fishing techniques. It sharpens not like other techniques its nets by the Wattenmeer and the bottom of the sea or river and destroys much of vegetation and animal world. She draws no furrows contrary to the plow into the soil and does not whirl up the mud thereby. In addition during fishing the engines are not used, since the ship lies during fishing calmly in the current. So the fish can become which means that they can be kept living in a water tank.

The technology

Fischer lets two large vierschauflige anchors lower to on long chains parallel on the bottom of the sea. If the anchors hooked in the mud, and the ship with the river positioned themselves, on both sides of the ship the Hamen is lowered in the water. Hamen consist usually of two rectangular nets with a large bag, those from two large wood, or each steel-pipes horizontal, (with four bars also vertically) as well as a cable system to be held apart. For setting up these Hamen a ship's boat is needed. The fish swim against the river and so with the tail in front into the nets are floated and collect themselves in several meters long wetting ashes, also "Netzsteert "called. With Steert in the flat German also "the back is called ". Before the current diminishes, the Hamen, the two bars, is closed, so that the fish cannot escape any longer. The Netzsteert is now carefully opened and the fish living with that Ke into the for an area inside the ship, for keeping is set. The Beifang can be released so also again.

In earlier times with the same technology, the Setzhamen in the rivers from the bank one fished.

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