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Monday 30 April 2018

Monday morning fish market in Newlyn


Early morning sees the kind of sky often captured by local ex-fisherman artist Robert Jones...



in his work like this capturing the mackerel handline fleet entitled, First Light...



this morning helped by some additional luminescence from a huge full moon over Newlyn...



HMS Tyne, the 'grey fella' as Scottish fishermen in the Clyde often refer to navy boats used for fisheries protection...

the Sapphire II has taken a berth on to go aground for some under the waterline work...



both market rooms full of fish this morning for the auction...



boxes o f monk tails from the netter Stelissa having completed her first trammel net trip targeting monk...



turbot...




brill...



while the beam trawlers put ashore good shots of Dover sole...



lemons...



a few John Dory...



stacked high to save floor space...



whole monk and ray from the Stelissa...



while the netter Ajax...



put ashore another good shot of hake...



some of the punts are still pulling in cuttlefish...



while mackerel are still hard to come by...



so some of the handliners go for pollack...

there's a story behind every box...



the Lisa always lands great looking fish...



whole monk landed this morning from some of the visiting Scottish boats...



a rare chance to enjoy the sun streaming in through the market door...




adding a bit of colour to this bream...



and a warm glow to skipper Alan's hake...



looking through the doorway the navy boat can be seen away in the distance...



another visiting trawler landing at the market...



not the only R&B in the port...



there's plenty more most Friday nights in the Swordfish...



another Newlyn nickname, it's a long story, one day it will be Pissy's birthday too...



boats up on the Canner's Slip...



and one of the Admiral's up on the main slip...



94mm mesh in the cod-end and the Navy brings you in...



the Orion, home from another prawning trip...



hauling just off the gaps...



easing the Vision into a berth.

Sunday 29 April 2018

Easy like Sunday morning.


Not the east but the west coast avocet...


a stern look...


Maverick  on the move...


flying the flag for for British fishermen... 


visiting trawler, Asteria...


visiting Scottish prawn trawler Ocenan Vision...


another batch of Jelbert's ice cream on the way...


Scilly supply boat Mali Rose is back in dock...


Irish trawler Unity on the hard...


exposing her kort nozzle and propellor...


both the yachts....


and the Scillonian III bathed in a silvery sea.



Saturday 28 April 2018

Unity - the largest whitefish trawler to work from Newlyn



At 28m in length and 287 tons the newly registered Unity is one of the largest...


twin-rig whitefish demersal trawlers ever to work form Newlyn...


Last week she steamed down from her home port of Kilkeel after being fitted out in Bangor...


and is currently trawling south of the Wolf off Lands End - the AIS speed chart courtesy of VesselTracker clearly shows the pattern of hauling and shooting - each period of low speed towing at around 3 knots preceded by a short burst at full-speed while the trawls are shot away.