Shrouded in mystery

The charismatic Charisma is about to set sail...

after she gets a gentle push away from the fish market quay...

a Serene Dawn indeed...

luvvly lemons from the Imogen III...

how ray used to be prepared at sea - the body or 'frame' of the ray being cut out in one piece to leave both ray 'wings' joined and able to be hung - a common practice with this fish giving off its distinctive aminia aroma like all members of the shark family...

mid-neap tide and it's mostly net fish in the market this morning...

#DrecklyFish and Ela talk fish...

serene enough...

JMW  would have loved this morning no doubt...

as a gentle mist rolled around the Bay...

as the sun tried her best to break through.

Busy beam trawler market this morning plus plenty of prime net fish

The mighty megrim, like most fish at this time of year full of roe - the dark patch in the belly of the fish...

stacked high with fish on the netter's end of the market, shout auction in progress...

big fish = big roes...

tell-tale mesh marks on the heads of fish caught by gill net...

the distinctive bottom sensor on the chin of a ling...

a turbot tale...

catamarans provide acres of working deck and comfort - up to a point...

one of the rugby family star fleet...

huge Cornish Sardine net on the quay...

in pots freshly retrieved after the storms reveal there is little evidence of ghost fishing...

a convenient resting place for the much disliked Black Back Gull...

looking in a sorry state fast becoming the latest focal oint and subject for artists recording life and the passage of time in the port...

dining out on fresh crab al fresco gull style...

high water times around the bottom of the current neap tide...

sample menu from Newlyn's top seafood eating place, the Tolcarne Inn with chef Ben Tunnicliffe...

bargains galore in the Newlyn Art Gallery...

looks like Tom will be protected for a while yet.

Charisma heads back out to sea after making her first landing of the tide.

Penberth and the Chappel fishing family

From the Dell to the Ocean from awen productions cic on Vimeo.

Fascinating 8mm cine film of a cove fishing family - the Chappell's from Penberth near penzance, Cornwall.

Sinking coaster gets towed to St Austell Bay from off the Lizard.

A massive cargo vessel which started sinking 12 miles off the Lizard Peninsula yesterday has been towed to safety in St Austell Bay.

A salvage operation is set to get underway to help the save Barbados-registered Sea Breeze which got into difficulty and started taking on water yesterday morning.

Divers will assess the hull of the stricken ship this morning and a temporary magnetic repair patch will be fitted. A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "The Sea Breeze has been towed to St Austell Bay where repair work will take place to its damaged hull.

"Our surveyors will examine the cargo vessel to ensure it meets UK and international safety standards, once the repair work has been completed by the owners and operators ."

A meeting between the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, along with the Marine Accident Investigation Branch and other interested parties is due to take place later today to put together a salvage plan. The 87m long ship was transporting limestone from Liverpool to Shoreham when the engine room became flooded and malfunctioning pumps failed to clear the rising water. The crew, all Russian nationals, were rescued by lifeboat crews from the Lizard and Falmouth yesterday.

They were taken to the Mission to Seafarers in Falmouth where they were said to be in good health apart from a few cuts and grazes. Lizard and Falmouth RNLI Lifeboats and a rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose, near Helston, were all involved in the rescue operation.

The captain had remained on board to help with the salvage operation.

Read more: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Crew-rescued-sinking-ship-Lizard-Point/story-20785545-detail/story.html#ixzz2vdKodekI

MFV Santa Ana sank near Cabo Peñas, Spain, 2 dead, 6 missing - #VIDEO

The fishing vessel Santa Ana sank near Cabo de Penas in Asturias, Spain overnight. Two crew members drowned and six more are missing of the nine people that were aboard. Santa Ana was Portuguese-flagged, fishing vessel with MMSI: 263457000, size 35 x 8m. The vessel steamed into a rock near Erbosa Island just minutes after departing from the port of Aviles to fish for mackerel.

Photo courtesy of VesselTracker

The only crew member that was successfully rescued was the captain Manuel Simal Sande. He had to be transferred to hospital to be treated for hypothermia and bruising. The crew members were from different nationalities: 5 Spaniards, 2 Portuguese and 2 Indonesians. One of the missing people is a young Spaniard who is enrolled at a professional fishing school in Gijon and had just started an training.

Read more at: http://www.vesselfinder.com/news/1894-Santa-Ana-sank-near-Cabo-Peas-Spain-2-dead-6-missing-VIDEO#.Ux8VRtRAH5B.twitterCopyright © Vesselfinder

Watch today's live broadcast now! - The Barefoot Ecologist's Toolbox

Today's live broadcast 

Returns the Lecture Series Campus do Mar with "The barefoot ecologist's toolbox", by Jeremy Prince (Australia). Will be Tuesday at 11:00 in the auditorium of the Faculty of Science, University of A Coruña and was broadcast live via streaming.

EVENT  The Barefoot Ecologist's toolbox 

PLACE Campus Universitario Elviña - A Coruña 

DATE 11/03/2014 TIME 11:00:00 Broadcasting is recorded except for the announced broadcast 

Watch the "The Barefoot Ecologist's toolbox" live from Italy - in English.