Welcome to Through the Gaps, the UK fishing industry's most comprehensive information and image resource. Newlyn is England's largest fish market and where over 50 species are regularly landed from handline, trawl, net, ring net and pot vessels including #MSC Certified #Hake, #Cornish Sardine, handlined bass, pollack and mackerel. Art work, graphics and digital fishing industry images available from stock or on commission.
More scallop dredges than you can count on the Albion, one of the Uk's biggest scallopers..
dwarfing even one of the ports regular beamers...
a busy #FishyFriday market with the weather forcing some boats in...
some are spotted...
and some are mottled...
some, like line caught bass, just shiny...
first signs of end of summer squid...
800Hp and three John Dory...
240Hp and 6 boxes - it all depends where you fish...
keen buyers this morning...
with some of the best quality but not quantity fish reserved for local consumption...
nice to see the boat take off the poisonous spines on these greater weavers...
look what the wind blew in...
local workwear specialists, Exhibit1 came to the rescue and provided another set of coveralls after some thieving person took the last set...ps, if anyone sees a well-faded pair of not-so-white Dunlop welly boots they went missing too!...
all set for another delivery to the Scillys...
a small Viking invasion...
landing scallops from the Marina Emiel...
several generations and iterations of wooden fishing boats...
looks good in pink...
taking on tubs for tonight's sardine hunt...
the Chickadee in towing mode...
the Ivan Ellen was called out early this morning to tow in the Crystal Sea with one of her nets in the prop...
but luckily the net dropped away and she made it back to port under her own steam - just as well as the tow would have arrived at Newlyn when the tide was too low and both boats would have had to wait outside the harbour for half the day!
which meant it was all smiles for the volunteer crew...
and coxwain Patch...
the new RB on her launch pad...
these guys are always smiling when they work, as ever, happy days mending gear...
Just the one landing of beam trawl fish this Monday morning, so plenty of the very best quality foish from the inshore boats plus some huge landings form the netters, Ajax, Govenek of Ladram and the Karen of Ladram with some of their fosh landed to Brixham at the same time...
typical of the inshore landings, best big monk tails from the Helford's, New Harnmony...
with their approach to responsible and sustainable fishing the netting fleet land seriously big fish, like these cod from the Ajax...
with summer here the inshore boats get to grips with pelagic fish like mackerel...
and scad...
while the Goveneuk of Ladram put ashore the biggest trip of rays seen in over 40 years on Newlyn market, the huge haul included stars...
18 boxes of owls...
and nearly 100 boxes of blondes and thornbacks...
even a scalloper got to land first thing...
and of course there were hake from the Ajax...
for the buyers to ponder...
all 300+ boxes of them, with half going to Brixham to spread the market...
Make hay while the sea is calm - scallopers fish better in calm seas...
it's gold again for @HelenGloverGB from Newlyn - so the huge celebration sign tells us in the famous Jelbert's Ice Cream shop...
bound in with the big pots...
the stern access ladder on the new sardine boat are almost complete...
the day has come, the Lisa Jacqueline finally gets to take ice at the end of her massive refit...
emblems of Cornwall...
bound away to sea...
bound in from sea...
and again...
time time land the morning's work...
these guys make the most excellent bisque - if you have never had it before head for The Shore Restaurant in Penzance and sample some of chef Bruce Rennie's velvet crab bisque...
