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.
Work on the Imogen to install an aluminium shelter is progressing well Punt PZ140 is off to St Ives to chase mackerel 'round the corner' - it pays some punt owners to transport their boats by road rather than make the long, and potentially dangerous trip by sea around Land's End. In Penzance it' s Golowan week which culminates in Mazey Day this weekend. Good to see our local restaurants make the most of local fish supplies. Fancy a day fishing for pleasure? Cornwallboattrips.com
Penlee Quarry is still the scene of activity - a new entrance road has recently been carved out of a spoil tip. The forepeak bulkhead has been removed from the Bryan D. Rothesay tug. Imaginative use for old fish boxes - hanging veg gardens!
Top London chef Tom Aiken begins his day in Newlyn mission meeting some of the fishermen he hopes will soon be supplying his new venture, a fish and chip shop with a difference - serving the freshest seasonal UK fish imaginable! We have Keith Floyd to thank for showing a real interest in fish back in the early Seventies; let's hope Tom inspires other top chef's around the country to source Cornish fish.A hectic schedule touring the port keeps Tom and his wife (of three days!) Amber, busy during their 'honeymoon'! Prime fish examples of local produce thanks to Jake on the Go For It. Meanwhile the Bryan D continues to shrink down to the waterline.
The stem has now been taken down to the waterlineMount's Bay Engineering's Terry doesn't just do cutting apart - one landrover being prepared for the annual MOT gets some tlc on the engine bulkhead. Some serious deck work aboard this inshore trawler.
Check out the latest exhibition in Badcock's Art gallery in Newlyn. Ex MFV Gratitude and friends.Torch man Terry works on the bow of the Bryan D.Off comes the whaleback!Jeremy and Mr Morley aboard the Danmar make a quick landing on Sunday morning before heading back to the 'Pits'. Mr Morley washes some boxes the hard way!
Below, is a letter published in this week's Fishing News from Shaun Edwards, skipper and owner of the gillnetter Nova Spero, often featured in this blog - how sad that Shaun feels this way and that he feels powerless to stop the endless irrational and senseless legislation that emanates from national governments controlling the fishing industry - stick with it Shaun!
"I would just like to say a big thank you to all the environmentalists, fisheries officers, quota systems that don't work, rules and regulations that are unworkable, the vastly overlarge seal population (fat furry b******s) and most of all a big thank you to all the governments (past and present) for their unwavering support over the years!
You have completely ruined a way of life for me, my crew and our families, as well as hundreds of others around the UK.
If you all don't believe what I am saying, then I offer any of the above (except the seals) the chance to come and take a trip on my vessel to see for themselves the devastation they have caused without doing a thing for any fish stocks, before I am tied up against the wall (I reckon that I will be by September). I can be contacted on 01736 351230 and I expect to be inundated with calls from all sorts.
I would also like to say a big thank you to Seafish for your support regarding my idea to to diversify into tuna trolling; despite DEFRA's initial support you felt it more important to pay the likes of Mark's & Spencer (a multi-million pound organisation) certification costs for one of their fish lines, as well as a host of other pointless projects that are about generating jobs for the boys and doing nothing for fishermen, rather than assisting genuine fishermen to try and diversify into different fisheries. (In my case, trolling for tuna, catching fish by the hook and line which to my way of thinking is a totally environmentally friendly and sustainable source of fish.)
Oh how I wish I was a farmer! Maybe if reincarnation exists then DEFRA officials, ministers and all the rest of the powers that be will come back as seals! Fat, furry and very greedy (hopefully in Canada!)
One final thought: £7million for anew market in Newlyn. Forget it! By the time it's built there will be no boats or fishermen left."
The punts are still into the mackerelHere's a fine collection of goose barnacles on an unusual boat up on the slip...
There were twin Deltic diesels (3000 horsepower each?!!) in this beast of Stevie Paulk's. Apparently, she is being re-engined with two 'tiny' 1500 horsepower diesels, make as yet unknown.
Work on the Imogen to install an aluminium shelter is progressing well
Punt PZ140 is off to St Ives to chase mackerel 'round the corner' - it pays some punt owners to transport their boats by road rather than make the long, and potentially dangerous trip by sea around Land's End.
In Penzance it' s Golowan week which culminates in Mazey Day this weekend.
Good to see our local restaurants make the most of local fish supplies.
Fancy a day fishing for pleasure? Cornwallboattrips.com
Penlee Quarry is still the scene of activity - a new entrance road has recently been carved out of a spoil tip.
The forepeak bulkhead has been removed from the Bryan D.
Rothesay tug.
Imaginative use for old fish boxes - hanging veg gardens!
Top London chef Tom Aiken begins his day in Newlyn mission meeting some of the fishermen he hopes will soon be supplying his new venture, a fish and chip shop with a difference - serving the freshest seasonal UK fish imaginable! We have Keith Floyd to thank for showing a real interest in fish back in the early Seventies; let's hope Tom inspires other top chef's around the country to source Cornish fish.
A hectic schedule touring the port keeps Tom and his wife (of three days!) Amber, busy during their 'honeymoon'!
Prime fish examples of local produce thanks to Jake on the Go For It.
Meanwhile the Bryan D continues to shrink down to the waterline.
The stem has now been taken down to the waterline
Mount's Bay Engineering's Terry doesn't just do cutting apart - one landrover being prepared for the annual MOT gets some tlc on the engine bulkhead.
Some serious deck work aboard this inshore trawler.
Check out the latest exhibition in Badcock's Art gallery in Newlyn.
Ex MFV Gratitude and friends.
Torch man Terry works on the bow of the Bryan D.
Off comes the whaleback!
Jeremy and Mr Morley aboard the Danmar make a quick landing on Sunday morning before heading back to the 'Pits'.
Mr Morley washes some boxes the hard way!
The punts are still into the mackerel
Here's a fine collection of goose barnacles on an unusual boat up on the slip...
There were twin Deltic diesels (3000 horsepower each?!!) in this beast of Stevie Paulk's.
Apparently, she is being re-engined with two 'tiny' 1500 horsepower diesels, make as yet unknown.
