#Mondaymorning in Mount's Bay

A chilly start to the day with the moon still high in the sky...

one lonesome cock crab...

looks like Roger had a few of his JDs taken by another trawler!...

the ays have it...

a long night but the Pride of Cornwall...

filled her fishhold with sardines...

dozens of Dovers form the Sapphire II...

which port...

a pristine turbot...

eyes down as the bidding hots up...

with plenty of boxes to auction on a busy Monday morning market...

Cornish colour, black and gold, two of the port's sardine boats landing...

make way for the netter Ajax as she heads in to land 100 boxes of hake and 80 of white fish like pollack and ling...

for once Tom can see the horizon across the Bay...

as the sun breaks through the low cloud...

away in the East.

Mount's Bay misty morning

The sun struggled to find a way through the low cloud this morning though the air was warm as any morning in the summer...

man on a mission...

rigged and ready to go...

just too much pressure for the old timbers...

a hazard for all old timers like the lugger Barnabus...

not a breath this morning...

some are immaculate...

the Gry Maritha all set for her next Scillies run...

the old Ygraine or Migraine as she was nicknamed is looking like one of Christo's creations...

Penzance's resident stone man...

outward bound for the fishing ground...

no swimming yet...

as the pool awaits its reconstruction...

one of Penzance's many eclectic windows.

Madison needs as much publicity as possible - an amazing girl for an amazing cause!

Just look at what the daughter of one Newlyn fisherman has achieved - and she is not even 10 yet! - today the money raised for the Little Harbour Children's Hospice by Madison reached £13,407...

Counting the coins...

after a day's busking in St Ives.

Here is her story and she needs your help!

"I am 9 years old and set myself a challenge to raise £500 forLittle Harbour . I chose Little Harbour childrens Hospice as I feel sad when adults die but at least they had a childhood, but when children die they have not had this special time. With the hospice's help the children and their families get a lot of love and care at a very needy time. I started busking at Easter and I soon smashed my £500 target. I raised my target to £5000....and smashed that too. Then I raised my target to £10,000 and I smashed that one too......so I raised my target to £15000"

Madison Glinski 

If you can help Madison reach her target - give her even more publicity and spread the word by sharing her Just Giving or Facebook page with your friends.

All alive!

Humber Seafood Summit - "Let them eat hake" - says Louise Vaughan

One of the presentations at this year's Humber Seafood Summit championed the humble hake - and made much of the power and use of social media like Twitter in promoting the fish.  Speaker Louise Vaughan also stressed how boats can push the fish they catch in front of customers by making it personal - one Newlyn hake boat, the MFV Ajax AH32 is no stranger to using new media to promote its fish!

Climate Change Science 2013 - #Haiku version

Reports released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can be daunting, even for science and policy insiders. The full Physical Science Assessment, the first installment of the Fifth Assessment Report (pdf), released in manuscript form earlier this year, is over 2,000 pages long. And even the Summary for Policymakers, rather optimistically referred to as a “brochure,” is a dense 27 pages. 

What if we could communicate the essence of this important information in plain language and pictures? Well, that’s just what one Northwest oceanographer has done. He’s distilled the entire report into 19 illustrated haiku. The result is stunning, sobering, and brilliant. It’s poetry. It’s a work of art. But it doubles as clear, concise, powerful talking points and a compelling visual guide. 

How did it come about? Housebound with a rotten cold one recent weekend, Greg Johnson found himself paring his key takeaways from the IPCC report into haiku. He finds that the constraints of the form focus his thoughts (He told me that he posts exclusively in haiku on Facebook.), and described the process as a sort of meditation. 

He never intended to share these “IPCC” poems. Johnson’s daughter, an artist, inspired him to try his hand at watercolors. On a whim he illustrated each haiku and shared the results with family and a few friends.

ICES ASC Plenary lecture "Integrated science for integrated management: fairy tale or finally here?" #ICES_ASC

ICES ASC Plenary lecture "Integrated science for integrated management: fairy tale or finally here?" from ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea