Germany builds a fence for herring for 500 thousand euros (photo)

The only coastal herring paddock in Europe has survived near the German town of Kappeln on the Baltic Sea. Now is the time to update it. Kappeln • Before us in the photographs taken now and about ten years ago on the Baltic Sea coast in Germany, the last such structure for catching herring in the whole of Europe is shown - a fishing enclosure. It appeared here near the German city of Kappeln in Schleswig-Holstein about six centuries ago, and all this time it was regularly repaired and updated - as wooden piles and other parts became unusable under the influence of sea water, storms and bivalve mollusks - ship worms ... A strategic commodity of the Hanseatic merchants Getting into this underwater corral and moving along it, sooner or later, the herring found themselves in a trap, from where the catch was then taken by the fishermen. At the same time, for many centuries, it was this fish, or rather the barrel salted herring, that was one of the most important goods traded by ...