Grilled Salt cod supper.

 Soaked for 12 hours after a light salting - given a heavy dusting of rock salt for an hour the previous night - two cod fillets are given the skin-side-down-crispy-skin treatment before going under the grill for a few minutes to finish off the top side.......

meanwhile a mix of green veg leaves - savoy cabbage preferred if available - are blanched and added to crispy streaky bacon or pancetta fried with a chopped onion with chicken stock and half a bottle of ale reduced by two thirds to give a thickened sauce to go with the fish - from Rick Stein's Coast to Coast. 

Sanjay's Kitchen, a Taste of Tin menu for 2012.

Cornish fish fan Sanjay has put together an feast of fine fish given the working menu title, A Taste of Tin........Sample Cornish Menu 2012

2012's first Monday morning market.

 No big trips on the first Monday market for 2012 but plkenty of quality fish from the inshore boats......

 much of it line caught..........

 like these dozen boxes of bass from the single-handed punt Cynthia........

 taking a break from recording the landings this morning.......

Silver Dawn all set for the New Year.

Saturday sees changes for the new year.

 Pebbles piled on the prom after the recent weather has passed through........

 and the stream running through Wherry Town has been re-routed...... 

 Tom spots a break in the cloud cover.......

 as the Christmas lights team get to work taking down this year's display.......

 so says Emmerdale fan Debbie.........

 lot 178, the Heather FY89 on the hard at Mevagissey is up for auction at next week's David Lay's Art sale......

 early morning gulls check out a breakfast of worms on the fish market roof garden.......

fine weather means the North quay is devoid of working boats at last.

More film from Newlyn in 1994.

Another short film from Pete Eddy (ex-Kernow Electronics) showing Newlyn in the early 1990s. At the time many boats were being broken up as a huge round of decommissioned boats were taken off the fishing register.

Potential Spanish block to discards reform.

Just one of the biggest fishing fleet in the world  - a flagged Spanish fishing vessel - photo courtesy of Nathan Marshall.

The incoming Spanish government is coming under intense diplomatic pressure to fall in line with EU proposals to ban wasteful fishing practices, after a leaked document showed that the previous administration was planning to derail the plans.

The government must choose between supporting its new allies in the EU, on which Spain's economic future depends, or bowing to its powerful fishing industry.

As Europe's biggest fishing industry, Spain could hold the key to the success or failure of the reforms, which would prevent fishermen discarding edible fish at sea.

See the full story here courtesy of the Guardian.

St Ives fishermen invoke unique fishing by-law.

After accidentally trapping arpound 100 sea birds in their net, St Ives fishermen have been banned from using similar gear in St Ives Bay from now until the 26th of January! See the full story from the BBC here.