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Monday, 5 June 2017
Monday morning market fish in Newlyn.
Market fish aplenty this morning in Newlyn with a wide range of trawl, beam trawl, inshore trawl and inshore and offshore net fish from nearly 20 boats...
a trio of monk tails...
dozens of Dovers...
filled main market...
with a good range of fish like these haddock...
rays...
a dozen boxes of John Dory...
brill and turbot were in good supply as the Ygraine landed about as late as you can get, her fish still being sorted...
and yet to be iced included these superb gurnard...
brill...
and turbot...
cod...
monk...
as well as the Ygraine the inshore netter, Myghal landed a similar haul of top quality flats like this trio of big turbot...
and a huge number of their slightly smaller cousins...
Red October, or like some sort of Jules Verne submarine...
Cefas Gary gets some lens attention again...
as he gathers yet more data...
a small step for man from the market...
red on red...
a handful od squid...
pristine pollack...
some big shots of ray...
the odd spotted plaice...
a mix of blondes...
typical of the fish caught by tangle net from boats like the Ygraine...
latest addition to the Rowse fleet and her older sister the Intuition...
classic lines...
ther more pragmatic lines of an MTS workboat...
with poor weather arriving last night and more forecast the number of yachts stopping over has grown...
the business end of a Scottish prawn trawler...
the port's biggest beam trawler and a netter...
woodwork in progress.