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.
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Saturday morning and all is well.
Brixham scalloper Clasina takes refuge along with the rest of the fleet over a fresh weekend...
giving the guys on the deck of the James R H a chance to finish mending the gear before the rain starts again...
now the Anthony is minus her wheelhouse and most of the contents of her engine room...
young Roger Nowell seems to be conducting an imaginary choir singing the praises of his latest ship, Imogen III now that she has her new net drum almost in place...
nothing in a sinking ship pumps faster than a man with a bucket...
the netter Golden Harvest is looking tidy...
the legendary Wiffer heads out for another day's fishing...
while top hand Nigel makes short work of some dodgy looking combination bridles...
the refief boat, Duke of Kent is still in port...
with hundreds of metres of wire to paint and hundreds of bulbs to check, the Xmas lights crew get busy...
latest show at the Gallery opposite the fish market is full of painted work...
you won't find fish like this in your local supermarket, and at $3 a pound that's a real bargain for the best in British bass!