Fishermen of Holland
by Kadir Van Lohuizen
In this series, NOOR photographer Kadir van Lohuizen documents fishermen's lifestyle on the rugged mudflats of Friesland, a northwestern province of The Netherlands, where their livelihood is dependent on the intertidal ecosystems.
They work in an area which is one of the few natural UNESCO heritage sites, where there is a very sensitive and fragile balance between humans and nature in one of the most populated countries in the world.
Netherlands, August 2014, Jouke Visser and his crew of the HA2 at the Groote Plaat, close to Terschelling, catching cockles.
Kadir van Lohuizen spent an extensive period of time with the shrimp fisher, the cockle, the razor blade and the mullet and the sea bass fisher. Some of them are highly mechanised, for some its a real craft and hard labour by hand.
Netherlands, August 2014, Cockles are being canned for mainly export at Lenger seafoods in harlingen.
Netherlands, August 2014, The HA 36 is offloading its catch of the day of razor shells at Den Helder. The HA 36 is harvesting razor shells on the North sea between Den Helder and Texel.
Netherlands, August 2014, Jouke Visser of the HA2 at the Groote Plaat, close to Terschelling is a cockles fishermen.