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.
a chance to see how the basic knots at sea are used......
the Joanna Lucretia was flying a huge Cornish Flag.......
and had a steady stream of visitors all day.......
fishermen past and present enjoy a BBQ on the deck in the sunshine.......
the National Coastwatch Institution had two stalls, with an oil painting of an old sidewinder against the quay in Newlyn as the main raffle prize.......
despite there being an abundant supply, none of the catering stalls seemed to have taken advantage of local seasonal fish like Cornish Sardines or mackerel..........
there were exceptions as in Les Rowe's Dock Inn which does its bit and has earned him a 'Hero of Golowan' award.......
even PZ Gallery felt it better to join them than beat them.........
meanwhile, Petanque seems to have reached the port as a sport.......
at £2.50 a scare it was one way to get a bird's eye view of the festivities........
the Lugger was bedecked as befitting the occasion.........
the first few bars as Golowan Band head along the prom.
Both the Centre at Newlyn and the Admiral Benbow down Chapel Street in Penzance have exhibitions to commemorate the early days of the Free French movement and their involvement with Newlyn..... small tug, Lesley, waiting for a tow down to the west coast of Africa........ from the Courage........ end of another tide for the big gill netters....... it might be comfortable for any yachts sailing this morning, but no wind means no go - unless you fire up the noisy on-board engine.
Here we the Orkneys....... but there's still a hug list of jobs to do aboard the Severn Sea........ showing her unusual cut away stern....... the waterline seems to be a little straighter here...... the Courage makes it the fourth tug in town tonight..... looking down the derrick of that sole boat...... quick meal, pan fired salmon steaks and chinese veg...... before enjoying the firework display...... best viewed from the back...... of St Mary's Church overlooking the pool and fair.
While the sun continues to bless Mount's Bay with its presence there's some interesting reading for the mackerel boys to be had in a quiet moment while the fish aren't chewing - this comes from a journal published 100 years ago entitled "Mackerel and Sunshine" by E. J. Allen. In his paper on “Plankton Studies in Eelation to the Western Mackerel Fishery,” in the last number of this Journal (Vol. VIII., p. 269), Bullen shows that for the years 1903–1907 there appears to be a correlation between the number of mackerel taken during May and the amount of Copepod plankton, upon which the mackerel feed, taken in the neighbourhood of the mackerel fishing grounds during the same month.
E. J. Allen (1909). Mackerel and Sunshine. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (New Series), 8 , pp 394-406 doi:10.1017/S0025315400073665
Would we know what Copepod plankton looked like if seen today?
Phil and the boys show their support......
the big fella from north of the border is back.......
Penzance Boating Pool at Wherry Town was host to a huge collection of model boats.......
which included examples of distant water sidewinders.....
classic sail boats.........
more wooden trawl doors.......
and a mixture of nationalities......
lifeboats on the move.......
and even one from the popular Deadliest Catch series......
Bobby Sowden's immaculate Sapphire always draws admiring close inspection.......
on the dockside in Penzance there was a stand dedicated to protecting the local seal population - no doubt not to well supported by some hands.......
a chance to see how the basic knots at sea are used......
the Joanna Lucretia was flying a huge Cornish Flag.......
and had a steady stream of visitors all day.......
fishermen past and present enjoy a BBQ on the deck in the sunshine.......
the National Coastwatch Institution had two stalls, with an oil painting of an old sidewinder against the quay in Newlyn as the main raffle prize.......
despite there being an abundant supply, none of the catering stalls seemed to have taken advantage of local seasonal fish like Cornish Sardines or mackerel..........
there were exceptions as in Les Rowe's Dock Inn which does its bit and has earned him a 'Hero of Golowan' award.......
even PZ Gallery felt it better to join them than beat them.........
meanwhile, Petanque seems to have reached the port as a sport.......
at £2.50 a scare it was one way to get a bird's eye view of the festivities........
the Lugger was bedecked as befitting the occasion.........
the first few bars as Golowan Band head along the prom.
