Audio guide in English

1. Welcome on board …

at the Fisheries Museum in Langenargen.


2. Take a look into the aquarium …

this is how alive Lake Constance really is.


3. Armored inhabitants of Lake Constance …

the crayfish are on the move.


4. Predators behind glass …

keeping things calm above.


5. Mussels in Lake Constance …

old residents and new invaders.


6. Fishing families …

tradition with heart and hands.


7. Fishing without borders …

Lake Constance fisheries since 1893.


8. From abundance to scarcity …

what happened to the whitefish?


9. Inside the net shed …

fishing then and now.


10. Horsehair lines …

a classic made from horsehair.


11. The trammel net …

a clever fishing technique.


12. The drifting gillnet …

the modern tool of Lake Constance fishermen.


13. Fair fishing?

Most of the time?


14. Fishing with beer bottles …

the clever bottle net.


15. Cotton nets …

when fishing was still hard manual labor.


16. The Klusgarn …

hard labor on Lake Constance.


17. From muscle power to motor power …

the storm that changed everything.


18. Fish in Lake Constance …

and what they mean for fishing.


19. Taxidermied fish …

how a museum specimen is created.