Monkfish, anglerfish, lotte - welcome to the toothiest grin in the sea! Just one of the whole monk landed by a Scottish prawn trawler on Tuesday's market in Newlyn.
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Smile!
Monkfish, anglerfish, lotte - welcome to the toothiest grin in the sea! Just one of the whole monk landed by a Scottish prawn trawler on Tuesday's market in Newlyn.
Where does your chippy get their cod from?!
Some debate on Twitter this morning - Peterhead awash with cod - maybe the chippy can explain why they prefer to use Norwegian cod - which wall almost certainly have been swimming alongside the cod on PD market before it was caught of course!
Marine Scotland #livestreaming meetings and conferences.
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It was great to see Marine Scotland livestream their meeting yesterday. Of course, if you didn't get a chance to see it live you can catch up with any part of the day by going to their livestream page on @Bambuser
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How to paint Poldark country (once known as Cornwall)
The Cornish landscape provides the perfect backdrop for enthusiastic painters - not to say fans of the BBC drama and Aidan Turner
Here's the start of an excellent account by Caroline Davidson of her painting course run by the Newlyn School of Art headed up by Henry Garfitt.
"Although I have found a solitary spot there are nine others around me, each of them attempting to get comfortable on prickly, precipitous ground. We are here on a three-day outdoor Coast Painting course provided by Newlyn School of Art – an art school in the fishing port of Newlyn, near Penzance. Established in 2011, the school is founded on Newlyn’s heritage as an artists’ colony. Just as in the early 1900s, today artists in this area are two-a-penny, drawn here by the sea, the furrowed land and each other. Newlyn School of Art taps into this community, employing more than 30 of Cornwall’s professional artists as tutors on short, non-residential courses.
On the Coast Painting course, our expert artist-tutor is Paul Lewin, a landscape painter with a gentle demeanour and a mean handle on paint. “Let the paint do what paint does,” says Paul during a demonstration at the start of the course. “Think about the substance you’re painting and how it behaves,” he adds, flicking watercolour onto paper, apparently arbitrarily but so that it lands just so."
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Waiting for enough water to enter Newlyn
The prawn trawler Achilles has finally made it into Newlyn after dodging for over six hours. Deep draughted vessels need to wait until around three hours before high water in bad weather to make sure they don't touch the rocky ledge just outside the gaps of the harbour - better to play safe!
LIVE! meeting of the Fisheries Management & Conservation Group in Edinburgh frm 11.15am - @MWCMarine
A live-stream of the next Fisheries Management and Conservation Group (FMAC) meeting in Edinburgh on the 5th May.
Part of a refreshed stakeholder engagement programme, launched by the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs & the Environment, the meeting with include representatives from: fishing industry representative bodies, fish producer organisations, environmental organisations, and Marine Scotland policy and science.
The meeting will run from 11:15 to 16:00, and will be chaired by Marine Scotland.
The agenda, alongside conclusions and actions from the previous FMAC meeting can be downloaded here http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Sea-Fisheries/engagement/FMAC/Meetings...
Read more on FMAC here: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Sea-Fisheries/engagement/FMAC Appreciate that @MWCMarine !
Tuesday's first market for the week and May
Pile 'em high! - plenty of fish flooded through the market this morning after the Bank Holiday weekend meant a build up in boats landing...
ling - the new cod for some chefs - see the Icelnadic chef Aggi Sverrison on BBC Saturday Kitchen for hugely protein rich recipe using Cornish ling from fisherman Johnny (must find out who that is!) and quinoa...
a busy harbour through the market door...
big run of hake form the Ajax this morning...
just in #ThroughtheGaps - the Lisa Jaqueline has work to do on the gear...
so the warp needs pulling off...
and the dripping cod-end needs pulling aft out of the way so that the bear can be stowed for landing...
some people are just plain happy...
while others roam the world in search of pastures anew - the aptly named yacht Nomad is a long way from home...
sterns don't come much bigger than these - typical of the most modern of steel stern trawlers...
three shining white knights of the fishing fleet...
names and numbers...
joining the other Scottish prawn trawlers, skipper Zander Jack Jnr's Nereus - she is the replacement for the Kairos which was brought to Newlyn as the replacement for the Ajax...
weather bound along with eh fishing fleet is the classic sailing ship Bessie Ellen...
and a Southampton registered inshore trawler...
heading for home.
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