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.
Tuesday 1 June 2010
New Newlyn Harbour commissioner - Andrew Munson
with a superb collection of line caught bass on show - on a market with no big boat landings to speak of.....
not quite flaming June yet - over-ending nets with oilskin hoods up tells its own story......
just in case you had forgotten - and getting clamped costs over £200 - beware!......
there' another Welsh dragon in the port......
the daily reversing exercise for the CoOp driver as he negotiates his way to the back of the store in Newlyn.
Porthleven Harbour Harbour Head Market.
a quality example of scumble paint work in PZ dock.....
a new set of flags adorns the Jubilee Pool......
on its 70th anniversary celebratory open day that saw a myriad of events in and around the pool on the day......
the crabs are a crawling, the entire Rowse fleet at the market to land......
while grub and ice go aboard the CKS as the netters prepare to head off for the last trip before the summer equinoxal tide.
Saturday 29 May 2010
More scrubbing and painting for the weekend ahead.
cats hate water........
one for cousin Jack........
its tanker time for the Silver Dawn.......
a big thank you to all those in the Star who will help make Christmas a brighter as a result of their efforts for the Harbour Lights funds.......
built in the 1960s in St Gueonole or St Gee as it is known in Brittany......
the Ben My Chree has a classic hull, she was formerly named the Gloria Maris and was one of the top tuna boats in her home port......
as can be seen from this drawing of how she looked in her early years bound away South to the Azores.
Friday 28 May 2010
The other Newlyn School of painters.
rigged with a stripper, the Bethsan gets stuck into the mackerel......
artist at work.......
with an interesting colour combination.....
its time to hop back aboard.
Its Open Studios time again in Newlyn.
Leaf through the pages of the online catalogue to see where artists' studios are and when they are open.
Open studios for Belinda Broadbent, Rose cecil, Leigh Berry, and Gemma Pearce can be found nestling in the streets of Mousehole.
Eleven new Newlyn Harbour Commssioners take on revised constitution.
Years in the making, the HRO will see major changes to the constitution and the affairs of those who make a living within and from the harbour. Drawn up and accepted by the current commissioners, the new HRO adopts the principles of good governance as suggested by 'Modernising Trust Ports - A Guide to Good Governance' - first published by the Department for Transport in 2000 and subsequently amended in 2006.
Eleven permanent and three co-opted commissioners will take up office as of May 31st 2010 and will be keen to be seen operating within the spirit of the guidance, namely, "The core principles of openness, accountability and fitness for purpose form a common thread running through these standards and should feature in the direction and management of all ports in the trust sector."
They newly appoinred commissioners are: Gilbert McCabe, Edward Bolitho, Andrew Munson, David Stevens, Kevin Bennetts, Mike Collier, David Munday, Juliet Taylor, John Lambourn, Nick Howell, Elizabeth Stevenson, Andrew Bell, Ray Tovey and Glenn Caplin. More information on the backgrounds of the new faces to the port will be made available soon.
No doubt, top of the agenda at the first meeting on June the 9th for the new team, will be to discuss the current planned development of the fish market and auction to ensure that Newlyn continues to maximise its return from being in the heart of the best mixed fishing grounds around the UK.
Hair today.
hand line caught mackerel sorted by hand......
it's enough to bring a tear to a man's eye......
a helping hand, its team work for the men in the punts......
as they head back to their berths......
seems a shame England's largest fishing port is losing its Seafood Cafe to a hair salon!.......
one of the few Art Deco pools in the country looks resplendent in the morning light.