Theme Economics, Recreation, culinary excursions
Old fisherman and host on the mudflats Jan Rotgans sails with groups on the wad for many years. Previously it was mainly fishing, but when the fish stock changed, the character of the trips changed. Nowadays the fish is nog taken home but it is caught, cooked and eaten on board.

Social and spatial economics http://www.waddenacademie.nl/index.php?id=37&L=1

The Wadden Sea Region is characterised by a powerful interaction between man and nature. This applies both to the islands and to the coastal strip. The people who live there feel bound to the Wadden Sea Region and many make their living in the ecosystem of the tidal flats. The region contains a wide diversity of socio-economic activities. These activities range from fishing, agriculture, leisure and tourism, exploitation of natural resources such as oil and gas, to maintaining sea defences.