Full-on #FishyFriday market in Newlyn.

Tom busy keeping an eye on those still at sea...

on yet another dull, grey but relatively mild FishyFriday morning...

someone is fussy about what they eat it seems...

all three bays full of fish for the final market of the week...

with a good mix of fish and shellfish up for auction...

plenty of ray wings from Tom...

and some big squid...

looks like it's been a long night for some...

the beam trawlers, Billy Rowney...

and St Georges...

both landed some cracking red mullet, which, if you shop in Sicily are also known as goat fish, there are some who may well consider red mullet to be the greatest of all time but either way...

both these simple recipes bring out the best in this knock-out fish...

as ever, there were plenty of monk tails to be had...

and, as expected at this time, of year some good shots of squid and cuttles...

these spiky guys are becoming a regular feature of landings from some inshore boats...

cuttlefish have two very handy appendages for catching and hanging on to their supper...

young Cod had a few bass...

and his best pal had a few more...

this year the Mediterranean octopus invasion didn't happen, which for some was a bit of a disaster...

a box of wrigglers...

and tubs, another great eating red fish...

end-to-end stuff this week...

listening to BBC Spotlight earlier this week there was some remarkably ill-informed reporting with one speaker quite wrongly attributing half the white fish landings in Newlyn to scallop trawlers - even more remarkable when you think that Newlyn does not have any resident scallop boats and relies on landings from a fleet of small, and the occasional big, visiting boats in the summer months - the half a dozen boxes in this shot represent a typical landing from a beam trawler after a week at sea - it's telling when false information is used to provide the basis for the narrative...

while there are plenty more than 100 cod in the North Sea, the Western Approaches are almost devoid of cod these days, most likely attributable to the warmer water of the North East Atlantic we are experiencing these days, cod being a cold water loving fish...

good to sea monk heads being used for bait these days...

landing time for the Orion...

someone is hoping for breakfast to be thrown his way...

that's a mighty small trimaran for this time of year...

that's not a bow to argue with...

a brace of beamers home for the weekend..

there's some good crawfish trade at the moment.

 

Happening this Saturday (16th) - NEWLYN HIDDEN VOICES community event

Happening this Saturday 16th November from 10am-3pm at The Centre Newlyn, NEWLYN HIDDEN VOICES is a community event organised by Newlyn FISH Trust and Newlyn Archive in partnership with Awen Productions CIC. 

A short film about Newlyn’s Former Ice Works is being screened (alongside historical displays and archive film and audio footage), and there will be a presentation and discussion about the Fishing Heritage Centre proposal from 12.15pm-1pm.

AE2 Marine Engine Course - £210 instead of £850 - starts next Monday in Newlyn!

 

AEC2 Engine Course – 18 – 22 November 2024 – PILOT COURSE The Approved Engine Course 2 (AEC2) leads on from the foundations laid and knowledge learned in the Approved Engine Course 1 (AEC1). The course develops your learning through a good mix of theory and hands-on practical training and runs over 5 days (35 hours).

The AEC2 course is ideal for owners and operators of, and a range of personnel on, small vessels, be they commercial Crew Transfer Vessels and tug boats, private pleasure vessels such as yachts or superyachts, and more. It opens up the opportunity to work in a dual deck/engineer role as well as as a small vessel engineer. It will also help enable you to work as an engineer on board a Small Vessel* and to follow the Small Vessel engineering career progression path: 

This course forms a core part of the second officer qualification for small vessels less than 3000 gross tonnes/under 9000 kW. It is a core requirement for your Small Vessel CoC.



Once combined with your AEC1 course, the Approved Engine Course 2 certificate contributes to an MCA Marine Engine Operators Licence (MEOL), a required qualification for Chief Engineers on UK flagged vessels.

Price is £210 normal price would be £850 (no funding available for this course)

*MCA Small Vessel (Fishing Vessels, Yachts, Tugs, Workboats, Standby, Seismic Survey, Oceanographic Research Vessels and Government Patrol Vessels)

Karen of Ladram's Cito masterminds over-ending an entire fleet of nets.

Yet another big crabber is about to join  the Newlyn shellfish fleet, the 15m Michael Edward is up on the slip getting below the waterline sorted before she takes on her new crew and gear...

most of the Newlyn sardine fleet are working from Falmouth, Mevagissey and Plymouth, but young Danny is bucking the trend and still working from his home port, now it's just a question of getting ice for tonight's trip...

meanwhile, with big tides in the offing, running an entire fleet of nets off the boat...

is a breeze with Cito in charge - he's been aboard the Karon of Ladram since she was bought from Scotland eight years ago.

Kinsai Maru No1 - chasing bluefin the Japanese way

Kinsai Maru No1

After leaving her home port of Shizuoka in Japan at the beginning of August this year, the Kinsai Maru No1 traversed the Pacific Ocean, passed through the Panama canal...

before traversing the North Atlantic to fish south east of Greenland and then at Rockall...

before heading due south to dock in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. That's an awful lot of tuna to catch to pay the wages and diesel expenses!

Never mind the murky Monday morning in Newlyn - marvel at the quality of the fish!

The North Pier on a flat calm morning under 100% cloud cover and in anticipation of some sun...

hardly a day passes with spurdogs on the market, to think tons of these fine eating fish were dumped at sea and never made it to the market for many years...

top quality ray wings...

top quality squid...

top quality red mullet...

top quality tagged line caught bass...

top quality line caught mackerel...

top quality line caught pollack...

and top quality...

bluefin tuna...

don't forget the zarts...

a box of netted coley...

and superb tub gurnards...

one of the best eating fish, John Dory...

labelling up time...

Tom's turbot...

young Roger spent the summer chasing these elusive fish...

if you ever need regular supplies of ray wings, look no further then the inshore trawler,  New Venture...

three loyal members of the Newlyn hake fleet, Stelissa...

Silver Dawn...

and the Ygraine all put fish ashore for this morning's market... 

looking from Penzance dock across the top of Battery Rocks and the Jubilee Pool...

and a mirror-like wet dock this morning...

home to the Scilly supply ship, Gry Maritha...

taking on store for the islanders...

three very different boats alongside the Penwith Marine quay...

these entrance to the wet dock has seen some interesting craft pass through the gaps over the years...

another Scilly supply ship, a very spruce looking H&W Tean, ...

back in Newlyn and the light in the sky has some subtle shades.

Fishing for Change: How the UK is Redefining Seafood

 

Five seafood species make up 80% of what is consumed in the UK – while at the same time the vast majority of what is caught in UK waters gets exported. But is that trend beginning to shift?

In this episode, Sheila Dillon hears how initiatives like the "Plymouth Fishfinger" are hoping to make more use of fish that has often been seen as ‘by-catch’, and how seafood festivals are working to connect the public with local seafood, and can even help regenerate coastal communities.

She also hears how the Fish in Schools Hero programme is working to get young people to try more seafood, and shows how simple it can be to prepare.

Also featured are Ashley Mullenger (@thefemalefisherman) and tv chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Presented by Sheila Dillon for R4 Food Programme.

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Natalie Donovan