Saturday squalls

The money-bag - one cod, end all ready to be stitched back on to the stocking of the trawl...

BF432 Orion, another member of the visiting Scottish prawn trawler fleet in Newlyn between trips...

while over on the New quay, the @Nereus172 gives her twin trawl cod-ends a washing in the harbour...

which inevitably causes any number of disputes amongst the local gull population...

pallets of packaging wait on the quay while the boat unloads its trip...

of frozen at sea langoustine...

which are weighed, graded and frozen while the boat fishes 24/7...

and then on landing go straight to refrigerated transport...

with each box's destination marked...

the real McKay set to cart them away...

Fladda Maid (ex-Crystal Sea II) and her twin-rig prawn trawl...

two more visiting trawlers from further round the Cornish coast...

on survey, off duty...

the genuine article, lined up for landing...

bow shot of the Orion on the North quay...

probably better you can't see so well astern of you sometimes...

all set for a day on the pots...

good to see another young fisherman taken to sea...

on the Mousehole boat...

over in Penzance wet dock the Scilly supply boat, Gry Maritha's replacement is being brought up to standard...

moves to make the lives of queuing customers more comfortable in case of showers for the IoS Steamship Company...

just a few feet longer than the ex-icebreaker yacht conversion...

the Mali Rose arrived a few days ago...

her slab sides...

and welded plating construction...

and rather blunt nose allude to purpose rather than the aesthetics of many ships at sea...

the Karen, nearing the end of her annual refit...

a Falmouth registered classic...

Cadgwith crabber, the Minerva...

nothing, not what you want to see in the Dry Dock...

the old Trinity House buoy service building.

Wishing the William Sampson Stevenson a very #FishyFriday

Steaming down off Porthcurno, and making it a very #FishyFriday for the W S S - she finally gets to sea after her biggest refit in years.

Marine Planning: Issues and Evidence - South West

This June the MMO will be launching a Call for Issues with Supporting Evidence for the north east, north west, south east and south west marine plan areas.

As part of this, they would like to invite you to take part in one of their workshops.

The workshops will give you the chance to share your views and evidence on the challenges, opportunities and needs of each plan area over the next 20 years and how you think marine plans could address these. They will share with you information they have gathered so far on emerging issues and demonstrate their Marine Planning Evidence Base. 

The MMO want local, specialist and industry knowledge and experience of the marine areas because they are essential to creating meaningful and tailored marine plans. 

To register interest in a workshop please visit their Eventbrite pages. The workshops are full day events with lunch and refreshments provided.


The workshops are being held at: 

Plymouth: Tuesday 19 July, National Marine Aquarium 10am to 4pm 

Bristol: Wednesday 20 July, Colston Hall 10am to 4pm 

Falmouth: Thursday 21 July, National Maritime Museum 10am to 4pm

'Evening all!

Almost ready for sea, the William looking good in the evening sun...

having arrived earlier in the day, it is time for Don and the crew to overhaul the trawls ready for the next trip...

looks like a busy night ahead for the Scottish prawn boats, two lorries loaded with empty boxes wait for the boats to come in and land...

gull's-eye view of the crowded deck of an inshore trawler...

fine weather and big trips of fish for the boats means the market fridge is almost full...

and a big percentage of the fish landed are of course Cornish MSC Certified hake...

Boy Lee heads back to a berth for the night.

Drawn to the light - Monday morning in Mount's Bay.

Bumper start to the week for the fish market at Newlyn...

with the Scottish prawn boats like the Solstice helping to increase landings of John Dory...

though local John Dory specialist Roger took his biggest ever trip of lemon soles out of the water over the weekend...

haddocks figure in landings by all boats these days...

while these bass are sure to make a shilling or two...

head-on monks identify the boat that caught them as being from north of the border...

first landings of hake this week down to the Ajax...

and the Karen of Ladram...

with some of the 6+ kilo fish way too big for the box...

eyes down for the next sale...

5 links of chain make up the beam trawler's mat...

what a start to the week...

for any of the boats in Mount's Bay...

while some wait for their sailing orders like the Belgian beam trawler, Ruben...

and tug, Duke of Normandy...

the skipper and crew of the William Samson Stevenson must be polishing their wellies and ironing their oilskins in anticipation of the day she is set to sail, can't be far off now...

on her way to get ice, Millenia...

while it looks like the Crystal Sea has some more work to do on her trawl...

another Falmouth boat to visit the port, the Copious...

with her novel arrangement of her two net drums...

more and more yachts make the choice to stopover in Newlyn these days...

no prizes for guessing the nationality of this boat...

every fisherman gets to enjoy days like this as part of the job, compensating in some way for all the other days when you wish it was like this...

one of the country's finest contemporary artists, Ken Howard is out to capture the fabulous light this morning in a small study contré jour - and, as befitting the Royal Academy's Professor of Perspective, he employs the use of a steel rule to sketch in charcoal the basic structure of the scene in front of him. looking towards Penzance wet dock and the harbour gaps.