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.
This little chap is juts one of 11,000 young lobsters that the amazing team at Padstow Lobster Hatchery have ready for distribution around the coast of Cornwall in the coming weeks..
here the hatchery's Ben Marshall explains how lobsters held in the centre...
don't produce the familiar blue pigment when grown to tis size unless they are kept in the wild - the 11,000 lobsters are being looked after in a local Mussel Farm...
the hatchery took the decision years ago to invest in DNA sampling all the incoming female lobsters that are used to provide eggs for fertilisation - the results of that decision are now paying a huge dividend - recently it has come to light that as the result of a French lobster breeding programme back in the 1980s - which saw a few thousand lobsters bred in France and released into the waters off Sardinia - around 60% of lobsters tested in the Mediterranean are of Cornish-Breton decent!..
here Ben shows Matt Slater from the Cornwall Good Seafood Guide the holding boxes used to transport the tiny lobsters ready for seeding in the inshore waters around the coast.
Unusually this turbot has no pigment on the topside...
the inshore boats made the most of a relativey quiet weekend weather-wise so boats like the Imogen III were able to get in some good hauls like these ray...
the odd bass...
Couch's bream...
and the odd red mullet
while Still Waters picked up more ray...
tell-tale tail but from which fish?..
good enough to eat...
this time of year is not megrim sole season...
though the odd John Dory still seems to find its way over young Roger Nowell's footrope and into his cod end...
the odd monk or two...
a good day's fishing for Still Waters, the only Newlyn boat with a regular female member of the crew!...
just a few with the beam trawlers that landed...
plenty of these guys in t Ives Bay - despite being chased by bluefin tuna and minke whales...
nice work Sheila T...
just some of the macs landed...
good to see young Edwin wide awake...
plenty of frozen bait ready for the pots on the good ship Nazarene...
well before sunrise it's the ever elusive Cod at speed heading for another day handlining for bass...
Girl Pamela leaves the fishmarket...
Trinity House's Patricia at anchor...
with not a breath of wind to disturb the waters in Mounts Bay...
always good to see the Ivan Ellen tucked up in her berth...
Chris Morley making ready...
to spend another day on the pollack and bass...
as a little more light breaks into the sky...
with the new lifeboat house...
and gigs enjoying the light, even though the temp is around 0˚...
seems we have a new Xmas tree in Keel Alley this year courtesy of Newlyn Harbour Lights - made entirely from discarded trawl net and other plastic fishing gear - hats off to all those helping Newlyn to maintain its green credentials!
At first sight you have to marvel at the distance steamed by some fishing vessels to fish at the much disputed Rockall - around two days if you fish from Fleetwood. However, if you are...
a Japanese longliner Kinsai Maru No1 which was launched earlier this year and is now on her maiden voyage...
from Japan, where she left around the 17th of September to begin the almost three month steam across two oceans, first the Pacific and then the Atlantic to fish at Rockall - makes you wonder just how much tuna (assumedly bluefin) - that she has to catch to justify such a long steam for a brand new vessel! Individual bluefin tuns have made up to £2.3 million pounds on Tokyo's famous fish market - but they are landed fresh.