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.
The kind of changeable weather more commonly associated with October gives rise to continually changing skies over the Bay this morning......
laying between the Green and the Low Lee buoy, the Danish tall ship Georg Stag at anchor and the beamer Billy Rowney laid to..........
not every town street has such a view........
old stone work lays just above the line of the old causeway, purpose unknown, one for the Newlyn Archive to solve maybe........
on the market it's not too late for some razor clams.........
and there is still fierce bidding for Dovers from the beamer fleet.......
good sized mackerel, not so plentiful, owing to the very blustery conditions over the weekend which kept most of the inshore fleet against the quay, on moorings or up on the beach........
big turbot for the Gary M again.........
a good day's work aboard the netter Silver Dawn as she changes over gear, at the end of this tide she is bound for Lechiagat (the boatyard side of Guilvenec) for her annul refit, no doubt the crew will take the time to enjoy a few days of warm Breton hospitality and sample the delights of Kouign-Amman (butter cake), gwin ru or possibly even a shot of hard-to-find Lambig (traditionally farm produced cider spirit).........,
hopefully, before the rain arrives.......
the boys aboard the Billy Rowney will.........
manage to pull the gear ashore........
it's a blue sort of day........
what to look for in fish freshness - after a few days the eyes may have shrunk (not necessarily affecting the flavour in any way) - in fact, many fishermen will argue that big fish, like cod in particular, lack flavour if eaten straight out of the sea......
an example of a cod not long wrestled from its habitat..........
plenty of work for the harbour staff making ready the new timber fenders for the North Quay........
baldness brings on an alliteration attack..........
if the weather looks like it will cloud the skies at the weekend, put this date in the diary for the kids.
Keep an eye on the AIS live view page to track the big tall ships as they make their way to Waterford for the start of this year's Tall Ships Race 2011. At the moment, the French ship Belem makes a fine sight as she is currently anchored off the back of the harbour at Newlyn.
