Its time for the St Ives September Festival in .......St Ives.

These days, St Ives is better known for the Arts than the huge fishing fleet it once supported, and nothing exemplifies that better than the Tate Gallery.....

which capture the market catered for today, namely persuading tourists to part with their cash for art and craft, gifts and food.....

support for the arts comes from all directions including the town's best known pub, The Sloop Inn on the harbour front.....

while round the back streets the famous, but now dilapidated Porthmeor Studios are hoping to take advantage of the thousands that will fill the town starting next weekend for its celebration of the Arts.....

part way through this clip, renowned net setter and ex-fisherman 'Bish' makes his contribution to help preserve a building that has served the local fishermen since the last century by providing a covered building in which to make and set gear.

There's a long way to go!

For four cyclists about to cross Ross Bridge in Penzance for Matt, John O'Groats must seem a long way away when they are just a few miles from Land's End........

builders bags have cut down the tedious time spent over-ending tier after tier of net aboard the netters.

The importance of being branded.

Cornwall's brand 'gives county economic resilience'

"It comes after research for the BBC ranked Cornwall 38th out of 324 areas in England in terms of having resilient sectors such as agriculture, fishing and banking"

Hard on the heels of that small, but significant event earlier this week, when a local resident saw fit to make Rick Stein feel less than welcome comes news that Cornwall's 'brand' will help protect it as public sector cuts hit the country - and, sure enough, up there with banking and tourism, fishing gets a mention.

While the tide is high.

 Clive scoops another load of shingle, the recent weather pattern has created a shingle bank building at the entrance to the harbour......

Curtis senior studies the trawl before the net drum turns....

and the net is carefully guided on by Phil.....

 for a few minutes access by road to the ILB boathouse is cut off by the biggest tide of the year.....

and the Mission skippers car gets an underbody wash.

Morning high water.

The lesser striped cod fish......

 over at penzance, and completely submerged, the inner harbour and Abbey slip road - from the same viewpoint as the scene captured in Stanhope Forbes' painting recently acquired by Penlee Gallery....

 a morning's data collection over and done with......

 the St Georges rides high at the top of the tide, one of the few times in a year when it is possible to put the biggest of the fleet's boats, "up on the hard"......

 the Susan Bird makes her way through the gaps to land.....

 no messing here by the man with the knobbly knees......

 time to change the tooth bars on the dredges.....

 the season's over for another year so its time for a break......

 the Dom Bosco lands to Seafoodandeatit......

 top of the tide from Newlyn Green.....

as the dredges get the once over.

A reminder - Floyd and Stein, the early days.

When few restaurants or hotels in London, never mind Cornwall, would have dared to put shark or monk on their menus - here is Keith Floyd, passionate as ever eulogising to a young Richard (as he was in those days) Stein in the kitchen of his Padstow Seafood Restaurant - this was shot years before the term Padstein was coined. The clip has a great dialogue between them both as they toss in helpful and informative cooking tips and tricks for good measure.

Mrs No Name and the rumour mongers!

Rick Stein walks with Denham Productions' producer Arezoo Farahzad and harbour commissioner Nick Howell early on Tuesday alongside the market.

This week, Penwith's local paper The Cornishman reports on an anonymous woman who told them she had seen Rick Stein in the town earlier this week and asked him not to turn Newlyn into a "new Padstow"! Given the current state of affairs, as the harbour commissioners are hard at work preparing their business plan for the future of the harbour, any activity or interest shown by such influential people as Rick Stein should surely be welcomed - as it was, his presence was entirely innocent of course, filming for a BBC2 Christmas special.

Rick Stein, along with the late Keith Floyd, two highly influential chefs whom, back in the 80s, were responsible for changing the eating habits of a generation in this country - mainly for fish. Rick Stein's book, English Seafood Cookery was recently rated at number 16 in the Guardian's top 50 cook books of all time. Hotels and restaurants all over the UK began to source fish locally and put langoustine, red mullet, monkfish, squid and hake on the menu with the confidence that they would sell to a more knowledgeable public - unheard of prior to the screening of the eponymous Floyd on Fish or Stein's Taste of the Sea.

Newlyn is not about to turn into another Padstow, even if Mr Stein decided that it was the ideal place in which to open a new venture.  At the moment Newlyn needs to celebrate all aspects of the fishing industry and its heritage. TV programmes, especially food related, create interest and potentially increases awareness and therefore sales of locally caught fish - all to the good.

Remember, many years ago, St Austell, by far the biggest town in Cornwall at the time, said no to Marks & Spencers - so they opened a store in the small (at the time) central town of Truro - and the rest, anonymous Newlyn resident, is history.