Zuiderzee Museum

The Zuiderzee Museum, located on Wierdijk inside the historic center of Enkhuizen, is a Dutch museum dedicated to keeping the cultural history and maritime history from the vintage Zuiderzee area. With the final of the Afsluitdijk on May 28, 1932, the Zuiderzee turned into split in elements: the waters beneath the Afsluitdijk are actually known as the IJsselmeer, whilst the waters north of it are now taken into consideration to be a part of the Waddenzee. Enkhuizen is referred to as Haringstad and become an essential fishing port for hundreds of years till the Zuiderzee changed into closed off in 1932 via the construction of the Afsluitdijk.

The fishing grounds had been now fresh-water and the fish changed from fish like herring and anchovy to eel, smelt and purple perch. Nowadays, eels are rare in the IJsselmeer; the most in all likelihood reasons are water pollution, and the commercial fishing of their offspring glass eels because of their transparency at some stage in their travels returned to Europe from the eels' breeding waters within the Sargasso Sea for rearing in land-primarily based packing containers. The huge variety of cormorants inside the vicinity additionally feed off eel.