Zeese

Zeese is the name for each trawl in the broader sense. In a narrower sense is called Zeese a special net with bottom trawl mouth width of 12 m, which was towed by the Zeesenboot boats. It is to be distinguished from the more specific Tuckzeese, operated with two boats.

The Zeesenboot fishing boats with Zeesenboot was common in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Pomeranian Bodden waters of the Baltic.

Operation

For fish drifted the boat, with sails set tight and upscale sword almost transverse ( abeam ) from the wind lying silently there. Always on the starboard side, it moved to the windward net with bottom trawl, the Zeese, behind him. The aft Zeese was attached to a projecting beyond the stern rod, the drift tree, and the front of the jib-boom and spread by it.

Was Gezeest at night without navigation lights. A drift lasted about 2 hours, depending on water quantity, then it was crossed back and started the next drift.

Historical development

Fishing with Zeesenboot boats reached its peak in the second half of the 19th century. Stralsund was with more than a hundred boats Zeesenboot the center of Zeesenboot fishing. At the end of the 1920s, the first auxiliary engines were installed in Zeesenboot boats, according to a drift came to the faster moving the boat eg on use. For the actual methods of fishing, hauling Zeese under sail - boat drifting across from the wind - had engines no meaning. After the Second World War it was in the 1950s until the late 1960s, starting from the villages of Barth Bodden chain, again to a renaissance of Zeesenboot fishing. Fishing was in the Rügenscher waters and in Stralsund area where this type of fishing was only practiced sporadically under sail at this time. Until the early 1980s, had a permit to fish has been applied to the Treibzeese only by a handful of fishermen. In the 1990s, the trawling was deprived of legal basis within the 3- mile zone. It is only since 2002, demonstrated by some enthusiasts of the Association of Zeesener eV, this ancient fishing technique, for the purpose of preservation of traditions and to enrich the tourism in the region Darss, again annually as exploratory fisheries.