African Voices - Cape Verde fishermen on Newlyn fish market.

 African Voices visit Newlyn - Nick Howell (who has done much to support 'artisanal fishing' in Cornwall like develop the Cornish Sardine fishery) talks cod with 49 year old Senegalese fisherman Celestino Oliveira and Issa Moustapha Diop member of the National Artisanal Fishermen Federation of Mauritania .......

 two of three delegates from Cape Verde in Senegal who are visiting the UK as part of their European tour this week......

 seen here lending a hand to land fish from one of Newlyn's mackerel handline fisherman......

 Issa Moustapha Diop was truly impressed that one man had caught all the fish - he thought there must more crew member hiding aboard the boat!.......

 smiles all round for a good morning's work that started at 4am.......

Celestino Oliveira and Issa Moustapha wait as veteran handliner Chris Morley heads for the quay.......

along with hard working Greenpeace delegate, Kiwi Alicia Craw seen here enjoying the delights of all that Newlyn has to offer - later the group will convene in the Fishermen's Mission to meet local MP Andrew George and David Muirehead from the South West Handliner's Association - which represents over 150 fishermen - to discuss their working lives and how things might be different - especially now as the waters off West Africa are being fished by the world's most powerful trawler, the Atlantic Dawn, originally built to fish pelagic fish like mackerel for Kevin McHugh from her home base of Killybegs in Ireland -

she dwarfs these boats - Atlantic Challenge and Western Endeavour 

and would even make her predecessor, the Veronica, look small seen here pictured in Killybegs back in the late 1980s

All fishermen in Newlyn are welcome to come and talk with interpreters on hand to help - unless your spoken French is good of course!......