Tilting At Windmills: Berlin Offer To Buy Out Shrimp Fishers Sparks Backlash
The German government is hoping to buy out North Sea shrimp fishermen to make way for offshore wind turbines, but far-right politicians say culturally significant practices are being lost along the way.
German shrimp fisheries, operating at scale since the late 1800s, are on the decline. Their paltry 7,500 tonnes North Sea prawn catch of 2023 brought in just €40 million, a far cry from the industry’s post–WW II heyday with catches of more than 40,000 tonnes...
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