Fedderwardersiel, Butjadingen

Originally, they used the crabs, also called the grenade, only for their own consumption or as animal feed. In small quantities of garnet with so-called Schiebehamen was caught, a kind of cash, which you pushed through at low tide, the water-filled gullies in the Wadden Sea.

With mud slides could then be placed on the catch of the tidal land.

The merger of the crab fishermen in the fishing cooperative on 17 Butjadingen January 1931 was organized by the crab-fishing professionally.