A palingvisser is a fishermen that focuses on catching eel. A number of villages across the Zuidersee (South Sea, now a lake known as IJsselmeer), like Volendam, had been well-known for his or her eels.
Eel fisherman subsequent to his home close to Amsterdam, 1918.
Credit: F.F.P. Bins, assortment Amsterdam City Archives (public area).
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