Here's one visitor to the port who knows her way in through the gaps, the ex-beamer, ex-midwater-trawler, ex-sterntrawler, ex-longliner ex-local, ex-Girl Pat III, now the GeorgeLou from Troonh is the biggest scalloper to arrive today....
and fresh off the back of a lorry, so-to-speak, several hundred pots, no doubt for the soon to be commissioned Rowse crabber, Emma Louise...
much smaller new arrivals from North of the border, mini scallopers against the quay....
and as is usual aboard a scalloper, the welding gear is in use, carefully being watched by two not-so-local crewmen......
seems the, 'mysterious lost Land off Land's End' is about to see some action - she has now moved across from the pontoons and the power block seems to be being put through its paces......
Mr Rowse dishing out the orders with regard to all those pots cluttering up the quay.....
Meanwhile, back at the Mission there seems to be a tremendous amount of interest from the press - slighty more than we would normally expect for a local fishing issue. However, this is the day that David Davies announced his resignation, so perhaps some members of the media will be more interested in what the visiting leader of the Tory Party has to say about losing Mr Davies, rather than their being concerned with the plight of a few fishermen and their chance to speak directly to the party that tied them up with the CFP in the first place.....
waiting patiently on the Mission steps, local councilor Malcolm Pilcher seems to be practicing his fiercest grimace while waiting for the main man to show......
as key industry representative and owner of the country's largest beam trawler fleet, Elizabeth Stevenson makes hger way determindley up the Mission steps before joining a dozen other local fishing industry represenatives......
Mr Leach, skipper/owner of the newly arrived inshore trawler Achieve seems to have a very stern countenance as he enters the Mission doorway!.....
and, of course, what ministerial meeting would be complete without the presence of the old sea-dog himself, UKIP member Grimmy Mike, suited and booted (in his own way) for the occasion......
after the meeting proper, one Kevin Bennetts gets his two-pennyworth in with shadow Tory fisheries minister, Bill Wiggins - as owner of Consol Oils there's no surprising what topic vexed our Kevin most - just read the entry for today on his website's blog!
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