Frederiksen Photography

The Last Eel Men of Denmark
The seas here no longer wriggle with eels and the life piscatorial no longer draws young men down the dock to make a living at sea. For the eel fishermen of Denmark, the days are numbered. Bygone are the golden years of the commercial eel fishery and the few who remain here are fishing their last seasons. They leave behind them a rich heritage unknown to most. As the eel fishery in Scandinavia dissapears this project seeks to record the lives lived here in Mosede Harbor, a small fishing port south-west of Copenhagen. The series of images captures the lives of the last eel men of Denmark, the tools they use and the spaces they occupy, before they ebb away.