European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday july 25, 1978 modern living visitors Ore Welcome in the Vost Halls during Early morning auction of fish unloaded during the night at Bremerhaven. By Dan Synovec Bremerhaven Bureau chiefs Ince its beginning More than 100 years ago As a Liny fishing Cen Ter the port of Bremerhaven has developed into one of Germany leading deep sea fishing ports. Jochen Jantzen. Spokesman for the fish ing Industry port authority explained that More than half of the 600,000 tons of fish consumed annually by West germans is processed through Bremerhaven. Our fishing Fleet is the second largest in West Germany. The largest is Cuxhaven she said adding that the City s fish Industry employs nearly 9,000 people. The fish Are caught far out at sea and processed by a variety of local firms. Visi tors Are Welcome to visit the Early morning fish auction held monday through Friday beginning at 7 . A recent auction was Over in Only 20 minutes. The first fish auction was held in Bremerhaven on june 13, 1888. And today s auctions Are a far cry from bygone Days. The buyers checking Over North sea halibut. Chef Peter Mirow at fishing port cooking school. Fishing port has two auction Hahn 450 meters Long and one act Folk 250 meters Long. Sales Mayra Ngab 000 Marks about 48,000 Tow 4 much As one million Marks j the fish Are unloaded Tomt Tei going trawlers at night Ltd Trot plastic containers and iced tors Grade the fish for in Borsch or norwegian Haddock t popular fish sold. Our port includes it i smaller processing eat i panics. They produce salads to fish fillets Bremerhaven s fishing i Many Short haul vessels that sea As Long As three weeks Fista around the Faeroe islands off h Norway and the North sea. These rugged vessels with More than 60,000 tons a dually he  Fleet also numbers is i is photos by Jmc that remain at sea from i months fishing off inca and South America. The t costing about 30 million 1 have a capacity for 99 fillets 60 tons of cab Oil a meal Jan zen added. The average consumes about to year and the  mans eat panel of Bremerhaven. He noted that the Mode fishing Fleet is Only Able to percent of the fish eaten of each year. The remainders we have to import i All herring that is cons000 tons a year be said. According to Jantie per began fishing out of bit the first Stern trawler Erh Aven in 1957, Sta Tim i modern Era in deep sea f