Fine weather over the weekend for a change as the visiting Scottish prawn boats begin to and back in Newlyn...
from all points of the compass...
the Faithful Star...
Boy Enzo...
and the Revival...
looks like the guys on the Ygraine are happy to be back in port with a trip of hake aboard...
just one of many netters to land over the weekend...
not nearly as happy as some of the crew on the Revival...
who have spent a good part of their trip handling prawns for freezing and fish for landing fresh...
there's an even bigger smile aboard the Girl Pamela, as a certain young man regains his sea legs after a slightly longer than planned spell ashore...
time to pressure was those suds away...
meanwhile, the man or is it a machine at the heart of the market gets busy with grading and weighing hake from the prawn boats...
off with old, on with the new nets aboard the Ajax...
Bonnie Grace, one of many inshore boats heading in through the gaps today...
at just over 4.5metres there's just enough water...
for the Vision V to enter the harbour...
once the nests were taken off it's time to get the fish ashore...
where the market guys get to grips with plenty of flats to grade...
ready for Monday morning's auction with every zone stacked out with fish...
like these MSC certified hake from the Stelissa...
Ygraine...
and Ajax...
a good selection of quality fish to go with plenty of rays of one sort or another...
top drawer flats...
head-on monk...
and good haddock from the prawn boats...
a stacked out Zone 3...
as much as the guys don't want to catch dogs, they are still to be found on many of the grounds targeted by the hakers...
megrims were among the white fish from the Scotsmen...
and a good few red mullet...
there were fish stacked everywhere...
almost filling the inshore chill room...
there's plenty of spots on a smoothhound...
last night they had a bream, or three...
landing for Tuesday's market, the Rachel of Ladram puts her fish ashore...
astern of the Britannia V....
the usual gull keeping an eye on the tide clocks...
fish transport comes in all shapes and sizes...
with the Mary Williams pier still stacked out with boats...
the Voyager is looking good bow on!
