On Saturday morning around 5 a.m., a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna was sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market for an all-time high of 155.4 million yen, or 1.8 million dollars, at the annual new year auction, Japan’s national broadcaster NHK reported. That equals $8,000 per kilo of tuna, making the marbled, richly-flavoured tuna roughly eight times more expensive than silver.
“The price was a bit high,” the winning bidder Kiyoshi Kimura told the Kyodo News Agency. “But I hope we can encourage Japan by providing good tuna.” He operates the Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain, which claims to be Japan’s first 24-hour, 365-days-a-year sushi bar.
Kimura said he planned to offer the fish to his customers on Saturday evening. Tiny sushi slices of the prized fish can sell for up to $24, according to the Associated Press. Japanese consume up to 80% of the world’s declining tuna stock. Ever higher prices cause alarm among environmentalists fearing further depletion.
This year’s price dwarves last year’s record price of $646,000
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/07/japan-worlds-most-expensive-fish-sold-for-1-8-million/#ixzz2HIdQL5y7
Monday 7 January 2013
Words of appreciation
"many thanks to fishermans mission for memorible year for looking after us all seagoing and retired thank you and your staff for your wellcoming manor us retired fishermen with faces wrinkled by sun.rain .freezing wind. knarled hands ,bits missing lungs shot memories leaving us but a twinkle in everyones eyes tales to tell to those that would .now in our twilight years we can still laugh and joke in away only we auld fishermen can understand thank you for clean toilets clean showers and galley shipshape for all the washing and care of fishermans gear well done mission."
To all those at the Missionb in North Shields.
Monday's mixed fish market makes money!
The Twilight was one of several beam trawlers to land on Mondays market, fish like Dover sole were making fantastic prices - £28 per kilo!!!...
and there was a good run of fish from the inshore trawlers and net boats...
which meant hundreds of boxes to got through the washer...
piles of pollack...
even an Alice Shad....
and boxes of those elusive mackerel made good money...
just the best of the buyers were left for the final sole shoot out...
pristine plaice...
redder than red mullet...
lotte or magnifique monk...
luscious lemons...
and bountiful bass...
even the Sea Spray has started working monk gear...
and of course at this time of year its in the black...
Tom keeps an eye on the boats as they come and go...
as the sun created a fantastic sunrise over the Bay.
Turkey Rhubarb Band Visit to Newlyn 2013
Spotted in Newlyn this week - the Turkey Rhubarb Band, the country's premier exponents of Guise dancing were strutting their stuff on Twelth Night.
From Wikipedia: There has been a rise of interest in Guise Dancing in Cornwall in recent years with new groups adopting the practice throughout Cornwall. The most notable being the Turkey Rhubarb band in Penzance, The St Ives Guisers and Pyba. The Turkey Rhubarb band and Pyba both regularly appear with 'Obby 'Osses, Penglaz and Pengyn respectively, both of which are the "Skull and pole" variety. Penglaz of course being most famous for its appearances at the Golowan festival in late June accompanied by the Golowan band
Saturday 5 January 2013
Saturday morning in Newlyn
The North Quay is devoid of boats, a good sign after the Xmas break...
though for the Rowse crabber, Emma Louise its just another day...
and a few scrubbing jobs to be done...
head of ship maintenance and ex-skipper, Bobby Sowden contemplates...
the huge amount of work still to be done aboard the Corin's new beam trawler...
the Wayfinder lays against the quay at half water...
heading back to a berth on the pontoons...
the old and the new...
with the derricks almost ready for a final coat of paint...
the new Hosking netter sports the biggest net hauler in the port...
a big step for Tom, chief engineer as he heads aboard the huge scalloper, Jacoba...
where Saturday Kitchen is compulsory viewing...
pointing out the benefits of just one of the myriad of software app that are common on fishing vessels these days, this part of ChartLog and Australian E-Logbook programme...
the hand of a working man...
you never know what will turn up on a beach...
or in Lane's Auction's sale room.
Friday 4 January 2013
Newlyn School of Art School heralds New Dawn
Not a Silver Dawn but a New Dawn in the Newlyn Art Scene according to the latest edition of the Spectator!
‘The street scenes in Newlyn lack nothing of subject for the painter,’ reported the young Frank Richards from the Cornish art colony in 1895; ‘paved with cobblestone, some of the narrow streets are occasionally strewn over with fishheads and entrails, so that one’s progress in going “up” or “down”-along is sometimes considerably facilitated by an alarmingly quick slide to an unexpected destination.’
While visitors no longer have to negotiate entrail-strewn streets, Newlyn remains a working harbour. Garfit leases the school building from local fish barons Stevenson, along with a harbour-front gallery named Bucca after the Cornish god of storms, where newcomers show alongside established local artists. It’s a promotional strategy rather than a money-making enterprise. ‘We almost want galleries to steal artists from us,’ says Garfit.
His sentiment is echoed by James Green, director of Newlyn Art Gallery (formerly the Passmore Edwards) and its sister gallery The Exchange in Penzance. This month saw the launch of Platform — a new series of solo shows by members of Newlyn Society of Artists — with Kate Walters’s exhibition The Secret Worth A Thousand(until 9 February). Although represented by Millennium gallery in St Ives, this is Walters’s first show in a public gallery and, in a reversal of the Cornish stereotype, it’s rooted in the land rather than the sea. Walters’s animal-human forms tap into primitive shamanistic beliefs in our common ancestry: ‘the secret’ that Goethe reckoned was ‘worth a thousand’. Beneath the earthy surface of her densely worked watercolours glows a prism of hues as radiant as a Turner ‘colour beginning’ — colour given full rein in photographs and films of the artist’s small garden that fill the downstairs gallery with birdsong.
Read the full story in the Spectator here.
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