Welcome to Through the Gaps, the UK fishing industry's most comprehensive information and image resource. Newlyn is England's largest fish market and where over 50 species are regularly landed from handline, trawl, net, ring net and pot vessels including #MSC Certified #Hake, #Cornish Sardine, handlined bass, pollack and mackerel. Art work, graphics and digital fishing industry images available from stock or on commission.
With a forecast giving gusts up to 50mph some boats at sea beat ahasty retreat and managed to get their fish on te market this morning........
including these megrim soles from the Billy Rowney......
and a cracking mixed trip from the William Samson Stevenson.........
including these gleaming cod, their man down the fishroom does an excellent job........
summer ray by the box......
always the trickiest part of the job, as a Cefas recruit learns how to cut out otoliths from lemon soles......
landing to the back of the waiting transport......
net fish from the Britannia IV.........
bound for tomorrow's fish market at Plymouth.......
courtesy of Dennis Oates transport......
after the trip it i time to go through the beam trawl and replace all those worn out links and shackles, rebuilding port side.......
it may dry up later and allow more painting and scarping aboard the Cornishman........
more pots being put together for the new crabber.......
after 112 years serving the fishing community, it appears that headquarters at Barclays are to shut the Newlyn branch - on landing days not so many years ago, someone from W Stevenson and Sons' office would make the short walk to the bank to pick up sufficient cash to pay out the boats and crews - in those days most of the boats would settle up with cash rather than cheques - on very busy landing days this would probably exceed £200,000! - and the preferred means of carrying the cash was more often than not a couple of Co-op carrier bags!
