Bike Fisherman

Bike fishermen use a giant claw to remove bikes and other detritus from the Amsterdam canals. The bikes are deposited on a trash barge, and later recycled for scrap.

Where people are paid full-time, with benefits, to fish for bikes

July 10, 2015Environment

Despite a century and a half of effort, people in Amsterdam still treat the canals like a giant trash can. Most of the trash is bikes. Thankfully, the city has a team of bike fishermen. What they use to fish the bikes out is, well, just incredible.