Last updated 2 years ago by Michael Darmanin

Fishes – a chain of shops selling sustainable fresh fish products – have declared bankruptcy bringing all four stores to an official close.

Director and store owner Jaap van Dijk tried to clear up rising debt issues a year and a half ago but all efforts seem to have failed.

The shop in Amsterdam felt the biggest drop in customers and revenue due to construction work that left the street barely accessible for over four years.

Only one Fishes shop, owned separately, will avoid bankruptcy and remain in business.

The Fishes business began around ten years ago after founder, Bart van Olphen, rode down to England to find a source for sustainably caught fish. His journey was successful and he returned with a truckload full.

Bart continued driving up an down in an effort to keep his four stores in business as the debts began creeping their way into the financial statements due to the ineffectiveness of the trade. The debts incurred then have remained ever since.

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