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Showing posts with label Scottish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scottish. Show all posts

Tuesday 1 January 2019

Scottish Cornish sardines






As the Newlyn sardine netter, Lyonesse makes her way out to fish for the night...


it appears that sometimes the supermarkets seem not to know their Scottish salmon from their Cornish sardines - unless there's a new Scottish sardine fishery that we've not heard of before?

Editor Footnote: Seems there's more to this than meets the eye - in fact these are not sardines at all but can be called Scottish Sardines because they are not actual sardines as in, Sardina Pilchardus - go figure!



In fact these 'Brisling Sardines' are actually 'spratts' (that's sprats with two ts!) re-badged as Scottish sardines by ethical fish suppliers Fish4Ever - find out more by following the link. As brislings is another name for sprats then you could say they are actually sprat sardines - although just to add to the confusion anther name for brisling or sprats is Russian Sardines! Time to consult the definitive book, North Atlantic Seafood methinks!


Thursday 28 June 2018

You can take part live in the Bi-Annual Scottish Fishing Conference 2018

This year's Scottish Fishing Conference will be livecast over the internet - this means anyone, anywhere can take part live.  Why not get together with a group of people arrange at your local fishermen's mission or other centre (internet-abled pub, training centre, college) who can show the event on a big screen?




This is the final Programme for the Bi-Annual Scottish Fisheries Conference on the 9th & 10th July. 

Many blog readers will be unable to make the long (and expensive in terms of travel cost and more importantly time) trip up to Scotland might be interested to know that this year they catch it online!

Save the livecast link https://www.mindfullywired.org/live-streaming-basfc18 in your online calendar with a reminder so that you can be there virtually.  Anyone can ask direct questions to any of the speakers using the chat box in the bottom right hand corner of the screen via the conference organisers.  You can also follow the conference speakers using the Twitter hashtag, #BASFC18 and ask questions to @fiscotorg

All the sections that are being live-streamed (everything apart from the breaks) are highlighted in yellow.

Please share the agenda, live stream link and hashtags to anyone with an interest in the conference agenda items. We’d like as many people joining online as we can. We’ll be taking questions on twitter but we’ve also set up a function to take questions online, which will be put to the speaker/panel at the appropriate time.

As you can see FIS have keynote speeches from the Faroese FM and a senior representative from the Norwegian Fisheries Department,

All the details you’ll need are here - share them with a friend:

Live stream link: https://www.mindfullywired.org/live-streaming-basfc18 - the chat function in the bottom, right-hand corner will allow participants to submit questions and comments in real-time.

Hashtag: #BASFC18
Twitter handle: @fiscotorg

Wednesday 6 June 2018

Mid-week market in Newlyn


Graded and stacked on pallets...



plenty of  megrim soles this morning from the two beam trawlers Billy Rowney  and  Twilight III...


along with some specimen brill...


and radiant ray...


which kept the buyers busy phoning back to base with their purchases...


every plaice has a unique pattern of spots...


at this time of yer the be\am trawlers working off to the south always pick up a few boxes of red mullet...


while the inshore boats pick away at the bigger ray coming closer in onto the banks...


the bigger the ray, the bigger the wings...


just the odd bass this morning...


thought there were some good landings of Dovers...


though it seems the sizes proved a little more challenging...


so careful checks were made...


while Sid on the Karen of Ladram picked up a good shot of turbot...


the Radiance  will be sold tomorrow...


checking the Scorpio's haul of ray...


there was the odd shark on the market too...


while the work continues on the second phase behind a temporary insulted wall...


the last section of market roof insulation will be fitted today...


hopefully the new market roof will find a way of keeping these pesky birds from roosting overhead...


the yacht Apache sails out past the Sanamedio...


closely followed by that John Moore's of Mevagissey built classic netter, Britannia IV...


the name has appeared on Rowse's new crabber...


nudged against the quay by the workboat, Danmark...


the Troon registered scalloper Philomena which was towed in by the Penlee lifeboat yesterday after suffering a major gearbox breakdown...


which doesn't seem to have stopped the huge smiles on the faces of her crew...


nail-guns at the ready, removing rust on the Resurgam...


while fuel goes aboard the Twilight III...


souvenir from one of the port's regular Belgian beam trawler visitors, O33 Marbi...


good to see the Sapphire is all set to go back to sea again after her major winch repairs...


leading the charge home, the prawn trawler Ocean Vision heads for the gaps ahead of the netter, Ajax...



and it's all smiles from skipper Alistair after another successful trip... 




fishing over 80 miles west of Scilly on the North West banks.


Friday 6 May 2016

First #FishyFriday in May!


Big clue as to which fish market this is...


and here are the boats landing this morning...


megrims aplenty from both the beam trawlers and the visiting prawn boats who are landing their whitefish to the market...


with his first chance to fish away west of the Scillys, Roger on the Imogen III has made a solid landing of his favourite summertime fish, John Dory...


and a handful or cracking red mullet thrown in for good measure, just look at the quality of Roger's fish......


Scottish boats land their monk whole...


checking out the results of one handliner's early morning haul of mackerel...


the fish are flighty and elusive this week making them hard to catch...


Don picked away good box of tub gurnards for his week at sea...


the almost prehistoric tail of a ray...


plaice aplenty...


builders bags have become a gosdsend for small and larger boats working nets...


allowing punt men like Barry to get on with the job more quickly and efficiently...


new crab pots still go aboard three at a time on the Girl Pamela though...


the business end of the latest Scottish prawner to join the fleet...


taking shape...


the stern of the Galilee is looking neat...


while the William now sports her reconditioned derricks and mast...


prawners, Solstice...

Shekinah...



and Nereus..



joined by the Astoria and Bracoden...


which was prefviously the old Solstice - many steel boats have their original names made in steel letters and welded to the bow...


which means they have to becovered over rather than burnt off when re-named...


or just painted over like the Shekinah ex-Ben Arkle...


waiting for the tide to drop to ciontinue the antifouling work on the hull...


away to sea for the Prospector...


some classic artwork coming up for auction Lane's, though the boats look Breton rather than Cornish...


unlike the luggers in this piece.