Inshore in trouble.

Inshore fishermen in Devon and Cornwall are warning that plans to introduce quotas could force them out of business.  Owners of boats under 10m (33ft) said they were worried the new system would be too restrictive. The quotas will be based on records of what each boat has caught annually between 2007 and 2010.

See the full story here on the BBC - local MP Andrew George will be taking the plight of the inshore fleet straight to Westminster.

Quiet market with most of the fleet at sea.

Long hours and late finishes, Cap'n Cod weighs a weekend's worth of top quality line caught bass........

one Cornish Sardine keeping an eye on things.......

enjoy a meal of local crab, a beer and check out the latest exhibition at Newlyn's Tolcarne Inn.......

sure I've seen this in the Tate Modern........

and this.........

an early Mondrian maybe........

the National Trust have arranged a series of nature workshops in the area throughout the summer, every Wednesday off Battery Rocks - see the nature workshops web site for more details and keep those kids amused......

sailing solo and heading for Land's End with little wind in the Bay this morning.......

more than a day's work on this footrope to set it on the bobbins........

it's always the wife that gets to stow the ropes it seems......

beam wheel from the ChloeT.........

the Ripple's annual bottom scrub.

Ben Loyal tuna video.

Looking for a better start to the season, first trip of the year for the Ben Loyal sees her steam home in a gale of wind with around 500 top quality albacore tuna.

This is the current postion of the Spanish albacore tuna fleet - off the edge of the 'Shelf'!

Sunday morning.

Charter boats make their way to the steps on the quay in Penzance.......

as the early angling brigade muster at the Cafe........

not taking coals to Newcastle but stone to the Scillies........

under a blue morning sky......

with the propellor and guard showing her ice-breaker heritage.........

Bag-O-Rags has a new line in themed pirate flags.........

with the sea warming up to all of 15º the Jubilee Pool becomes even more tempting........

a pait of dredgers, with the Mannin due to go in the Dry Dock on Monday........

scumble glaze used to give a wood grain finish gives the Ocean Warden a classy look.........

more paint in evident on the titivated net drums waiting to goa aboard the St Adrianne..........

the artist's palette, time to call in Nick Praed methinks.......

or if your media is acrylics then how about a short course with another local artist, Glyn Macey..........

last day of the annual Penwith College students'.......... 

show at the PZ Gallery..........

looks like a good read.........

one microlight spotted over Penzance.

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Ben Loyal steams home through gale of wind to land 500 tuna.

Enjoy a slideshow of the landing.

Skipper Quentin Knights watches intently as the first box of Cornish albacore tuna comes out of the Ben Loyal's fishroom.  After steaming home from the fishing grounds south west of Newlyn through a gale of wind to land her first trip, skipper and crew landed around 500 top quality tuna fish in the early hours of Saturday morning.


Enjoy a slideshow of the landing.

Ben Loyal's first tuna trip for the year!