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.
PZ999, the Jannie en Klaas has featured in the work of a series of local artists - mainly thanks to her having been laid up in the same berth for some time, she was the subject of a study by Neil Pinkett recently shown at the Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth...... a few lucky local artists get to work in the old Stanhope Forbe's studio in the Meadows up Paul Hill, even with the amount of light brought into the studio by the newly restored window there's nothing like working 'en plein' as members of the Newlyn School enjoyed.... so, on a sunny Sunday, with pastels to hand the Jannie is once more committed to paper.... with Helen Feiler, Newlyn art gallery owner also enjoying the chance to capture an element of the harbour in detail..... over in Penzance wet dock, an aspiring sea captain looks skywards towards the top gallant of the Ar Bageergan..... with a settled spell of weather the local sailing club has three classes of boat on the water..... as they make good use of a fresh nor'westerly breeze...... to round the marks on a triangular course set by the race boat.
The Globetrotter wagon was late getting away on Friday evening..... With the work finished in Tresco, the barge and tug are back in Penzance on passage..... catch the Winter exhibitions at the Newlyn Gallery, open till the endd of January 2009..... the new wheelhouse on this conversion is a solid looking affair......
up on the slip for the first time, Plymouth research vessel, Plymouth Quest.
On a gray day: During Remembrance week it's not only the fallen who are called to mind; in 1997 somewhere between the 11 & 15th November, the Margaretha Maria was lost with all hands 50 miles South West of the Lizard, seventeen years before that on the 14th the Pietje Antje went down in poor weather with the loss of three men, five survived.
A sign of the times, Newlyn's Pizza Patio tempts the tastebuds with a special offer, who could resist?...... Cornish sardines, the Resolute's night's work stand on the quay waiting for the Ocean Fish transport to turn up and collect...... 120mm mesh set on the bar on the footrope of this trawl, the boys won't be gutting many stickers in the cod end on this boat! dozens of whelk pots alongside the New Dawn.... professing to be the countries first green taxi company, biotravel's shuttle waits for its customers in the harbour car park this morning.... spotted on the dockside in Penzance this 3-drum winch.... with the boats keen to support keeping the Atlantic ocean clean here's the usual mix of net and Spanish long-lining gear waits on the quay to go to the skip
Just a quick update on progress aboard the Spirit of Mystery with the boat now just off the Cape Verde Islands well to the west of the African mainland. There's plenty to keep the boys interested in addition to their daily chores, including keeping the decks wet under the heat of the sun - we should be so lucky!
No prizes for gussing what the boys will be up to on the Crystal Sea II today - they'll be hoping for some sunshine as all fishermen hate working in the rain when they are ashore.... not the only scales in the harbour evidence that the sardines are still coming ashore during the night hours...... brand new gear aboard the Dom Bosco, part of the Emma's fleet of pots...... not much doing on the market this morning...... an unusual sight at this time of year, a big 'barn door' skate from the Gary M's trip - the mud (protected by slime on the surface) on the skin of the skate reflects the kind of ground that skate prefer to live on.... the winter sales have started, maybe the Star should persuade one of the local breweries to create a beer in honour of the Mystery's voyage?..... soon be bare naked trees in keel alley..... well, who would argue with Debs?...... Badcock's Gallery have a new show for November month, these days affordable art may just be a wise investment!
As the winter nights draw in, pour yourself a hot toddy, sit in front of a roaring log fire and take the opportuntiy to do some background reading and research on the humble pilchard - here's a publication from CEFAS in 1966 - hot off the press!
Better still, does anyone have any stories or photos taken aboard PZ88, the Madeline, that was commssioned to undertake trials in 1961-63? Some things don't change - in those days the work was viewed with scepticism - for a short while: "In addition to her main tasks of exploration and gear trials, MADELINE was also expected to search the traditional grounds when fish were scarce and to report any shoals found to the drifter fleet by radio. At first many drifters were reluctant to follow our advice, but after a few boats had made good shots from shoals located by MADELINE they answered the call so promptly that it was often difficult to get our own shot completed before the drifter fleet crowded us out."
PZ999, the Jannie en Klaas has featured in the work of a series of local artists - mainly thanks to her having been laid up in the same berth for some time, she was the subject of a study by Neil Pinkett recently shown at the Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth......
a few lucky local artists get to work in the old Stanhope Forbe's studio in the Meadows up Paul Hill, even with the amount of light brought into the studio by the newly restored window there's nothing like working 'en plein' as members of the Newlyn School enjoyed....
so, on a sunny Sunday, with pastels to hand the Jannie is once more committed to paper....
with Helen Feiler, Newlyn art gallery owner also enjoying the chance to capture an element of the harbour in detail.....
over in Penzance wet dock, an aspiring sea captain looks skywards towards the top gallant of the Ar Bageergan.....
with a settled spell of weather the local sailing club has three classes of boat on the water.....
as they make good use of a fresh nor'westerly breeze......
to round the marks on a triangular course set by the race boat.
