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Monday 19 September 2016

Monday morning's market


Net, trawl, inshore and beam trawl fish for this morning's market...


where there seems to be a dearth of harbour (red) boxes...


nice shot of John Dory for Tom...


while the WSS made one of the biggest landings of plaice seen for a while...


bass this big don't often get caught...


not by line anyway...


whereas cod just get big and ugly...


the fridge was full of mackerel...


and hake form the Ajax...


while outside the scalloper Sapphire landed in the mizzle...


St Georges, the biggest in the fleet...


just arrived over the weekend, the latest crabber for Rowse Fishing...


with her huge working deck...


and prominent bow...


which owes its rather brutal lines thanks to the MMO introducing fishing regulations with little thought for those building a boat just over the crucial 15m overall length...


lock up your milk, there's a night-time prowler doing the rounds on some of the boats...


first light cracking the sky...


finds the netting fleet in port...


and news of the MMO moving office to relocate at Hayle...


heading for the boat Dreckly...


with a couple of tubs of fresh salted bait for the lobster pots...


a stitch in time, mending gear at the ready on the trawler...


two of the visiting scallopers wait to sail...


the new Rowse crabber hull, beam on, looks like plenty of ballast will be needed to put her down in the water......


astern of the port's biggest trawler, the Crystal Sea...


fishing irony - an 'escape panel', well that's what trawlermen call a hole these days...


an early start for some...


as they don their PSD...


and head for the gaps Dreckly...


clouds scud over the Mount.

Sunday 18 September 2016

Newquay Fish Festival 2016




Forget the horrors of Newquay's stag and hen do weekends - the 2016 Fish Festival is in town...


which means thousands of people flock to enjoy...


three days of fishy fun for the family...
 


along with the fishermen of Newquay who make it all possible...


the huge marquee provides a great cooking stage kitchen for popular local chefs like...


Aaron Janes from the Harbour Fish and Grill ably assisted by the unflappable Kosta... 


while at the other end, the main music stage provides interludes from the likes of the Figurehead Singers...


throughout the festival there is plenty of support for sustainable fishing...


looking after the environment...


showcasing the fantastic work by the Newquay Marine Group...


while every visitor it seems tried some grilled Cornish sardines as the boys ran out of them by Sunday afternoon!...


apart from fishing Newquay is famous for its surf...


and family holiday hotels...


entertainment included...


Shakespeare in a Shed!..


maybe he's gone fishing...


Newlyn fisherman Dick Edes is a regular contributor here explaining how a traditional withy lobster pot is constructed...


or a dozen or more different Cornish Meadow preserves...


the port is famous for its shellfish like these crabs tucked away in a store pot...


keeping an eye on things...


the evening ended with a Last Night of the Proms...


with the audience in fine voice, their whistles wet by cold ales and warmer beverages...


the local RNLI station will get the benefit of a charity dinner...


extravaganza courtesy of HFG.

Friday 16 September 2016

#FishyFriday finds Newlyn full of the finest and freshest fish.


One hour after high water...



two of the big boats are back in action again...



and landing on this morning's market...



giving the buyers a choice...



of the finest Newlyn harbour fish...



from boats like the Sapphire II...



landing spotty fish...



or lemons from inshores like the Harvest Reaper....



or these beasts of the deep from the Milennia...



good mackerel fishing with the punts...



and a hoard of hake from that star of the TV series, The Catch...



so are these spotted or blondes?...



knowing your fish marks, make haddock easy to identify...



two fabulous top-drawer flats, but which is which, the turbot and brill, or brill and turbot?..



time for the Sapphire II to take on board fuel...



most of the netters are in port this morning...



jog on...



just passing through, Windcat 4...



a little repair work looks like keeping all hands aboard the Imogen II busy on the quay today...



a weekly task, dropping the derrick to grease the blocks...



so where's The Catch?