It's a sunny #FishyFriday here in Newlyn - perfect day for slapping on some paint.

Newlyn's incredibly diverse landings are on show this #FishyFriday,  these mussels are just one of 48 different species of fish on the market for auction this morning...

2 - monk cheeks...

3 - haddock...

4 - Dover sole...

5 - megrim sole...

6 - mackerel...

7 - large roe...

8 - spider crab legs...

9 - herring...

10 - scallops...

11 - John Dory...

12 - brill...

12a - turbot...

sepia from a few boxes of cuttlefish is not the only black on the market...

14 - black bream...

15 - spotted smoothounds, known as 'pissers' locally as they smell of urine due to the ammonia smell they give off... 

16 - ling...

17 - hake...

18 - whiting...

20 - tub gurnards...

21 - pollack...

22 - pouting...

23 - tope...

24 - brown crab claws...

25 - cod...

26 - lemon sole...

27 - lesser spotted dogfish, or morki (from the Cornish, sea dog) pronounced 'mergy'...

28 - cuckoo ray...

29 - octopus...

30 - cuttlefish...

31 - red mullet...

32 - squid...

33 - star ray...

34 - monk tails...

35 - small-eyed ray...

36 - spotted ray - larger spots that do not appear at the edge of the fish unlike...

37 - blonde rays that do have spots right to the edge of their wings...

38 - plaice...

39 - owl ray...

40 - witch...

41 - sand sole...

42 - bass...

celebrating the the joy of fishing...

43 - baby thornback ray...

perfect example of the spotted ray...
  

44 - sand ray...

45 - red gurnard, 46 - streaked gurnard, 47 - grey gurnard...

48 - smoothhound next to his spotted cousin - missing, but often landed the market, were coley, lobster, crawfish, sardines, greater weaver, scad, dab and grey mullet...

there were a few boxes of small fish landed under the new Landing Obligation rules that came into force on January 1st this year...

every morning these little chaps come for a feed in front of the blue harbour staffroom door - turnstones fly in from the far north of Canada every year though it seems their stays here are getting longer and longer!..

it's not only divers fish, Newlyn plays hosts to all kinds of creative events, Transition 2019 starts at the Exchange Gallery in Penzance this month...

as does four weeks Four Weeks of work at the Newlyn Gallery...

or you could learn to play the guitar under the tutelage of Karl Svare...

and make sure you catch the mobile post office van on Tuesdays and Thursdays...

sun's up over the harbour...

which is almost devoid of  the fleet most of whom are at sea...

just a heavy dew decorates the pier...

though it will soon be burnt off as the sun rises...

the Falmouth registered scalloper, Debbie-V is up on the slip...

as work on the Fisherman's rest gets underway to restore it for community use...

as does work on the new lifeboat house...

over in Penzance the Dartmouth crabber's refit is coming along...

with her new pot hauling gear now fitted.

Towards deliberative and pragmatic co-management: a comparison between inshore fisheries authorities in England and Scotland

An interesting paper written by Margherita Pieraccini and Emma Cardwell looking at the question of who should be included in the management of inshore fisheries:

In seeking to answer the question ‘who should be included in fisheries co-management?’, a constructive critique of the existing co-management literature is provided by filling the gaps of Habermas’s deliberative theory of democracy with Dewey’s pragmatism. Three conditions for ensuring democratic co-management are extrapolated from the theories: actors’ authority
over decision making (empowerment), actors’ diversity (membership), and the right to self-nomination (procedures for external inclusion). The theoretical insights developed are supported with two examples of co-management institutions for inshore fisheries in the UK: Scottish Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) and English Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authorities (IFCAs).

Margherita Pieraccini & Emma Cardwell (2016) Towards deliberative and
pragmatic co-management: a comparison between inshore fisheries authorities in England and Scotland, Environmental Politics, 25:4, 729-748,
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2015.1090372

After the gales, the first flourish of fish on Newlyn fish market this morning.

The eyes have it...

as hundreds of kilos of hake from the netter Britannia V wait to be distributed...

along with shots of mainly pollack from the inshore netters Lamorna...

and Girl Pamela...

and a sure sign that Spring is on the way as more and more of the bigger whitefish landed give up their roes...

along with landings of ling...

and a few additional fish like John Dory, tails...

and whole monk...

to go with the hake...

while in the middle fridge...

boxes stacked six or seven high...

of mackerel from the local handline fleets...

their trips also including a few kilos of herring...

newly installed, the very first mackerel grading machine in the South West some forty years after mackerel fishing became a major feature of the Cornish industry...

the machine simply flips off mackerel according to weight into waiting boxes thereby guaranteeing the grading quality of the fish they buy - progress indeed.

Exploring the role of women in fishing families

We want to hear about your experiences of life in a fishing family.
If you'd like to participate in this study you must be over the age of 18 and be or have been part of a small-scale fishing family (using boats under 10 metres).

We’d like to hear from a broad range of people who hold different roles in fishing families, communities and the fishing industry.

We conducted interviews in Newfoundland in the summer of 2018 and we’re currently looking for participants in the UK. Conversations are strictly confidential and we can come to you at a time that suits you best

If you'd like to take part, please get in touch by emailing M.C.Gustavsson@exeter.ac.uk or filling in the form below.

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Monday morning's fish auction in Newlyn.

Weekend gales kept the fleet in port save for a single netter, the Karen of Ladram...

who landed to the fish market yesterday afternoon a trip hake...

in pristine condition for the benefit of the Monday morning buyers...

along with a box of monk tails...

plus-four and tub gurnard...

haddock...

a solitary conger...

two boxes of roes...

a few kilos of  bright-eyed pollack....

to go with the hake...

just some of the mix of fish typically landed by a netter...

the only other fish on the market was a few boxers of mackerel from the Bay...

the Newry registered. Northern Osprey moored outside of a tier of local beam trawlers this morning.