Monday morning's Spanish flag of convenience stern trawler.

Monday morning sees four beam trawlers, one inshore trawler and a Spanish flag of convenience trawler...

with megs...

and monk from the Billy Rowney...

Dover sole...

a handful of JDs...

the odd bass...

a few reds...

another odd bass...

some monster turbot...

and plenty of big whitefish from the netters, like the Ocean pride and their pollack...

and hake...

big cod form the Gary M...

plenty of MSC hake form the Brit...

and for the first time ever, hake from the hake trawling specialists the Sanamedio...

a few pollack...

all of which went down well with the buyers...

including these whole monk...

gutted the Spanish way with their livers left in...

looks like the James RH is all but ready to sail...

a big apology to Sam for missing her out on International Women's Day #IWD2017...

taking a short break to enjoy another fabulous morning in Newlyn...

inshore trawlers...

offshore netter...

and the Spanish deep-water trawler...

with enough spare net...

and trawls aboard to keep her at sea for weeks...

along with a gear-handling crane amidships...

one in, one out...

as the Nazarene heads out for a day on the pots...

a better idea of how big the Spaniard is...

no sign of the Ajax's shaft yet...

bow on to the Spaniard...

full on A&P workforce

early season yacht sets sail...

as the fleet bask in the morning sun...

it's fuel time for big Don...

the stern ramp and trawl doors of the Sanamedio...

she was built to fish in deep water for hake and monk on banks like the Porcupine...

which is likely where she steamed form before arriving in Newlyn...

the AA heads up the fleet in berth...

over 25m vessels have a duplicate set of all important navigation lights fitted...

plenty of heavy scaffolding on the Trevessa IV...

 in order to re-build her forward gantry.

New Newlyn crabber Harriet Eve launch party

Watch & listen to the blessing and naming ceremony for the Harriet Eve

Proving that despite ever increasing and seemingly obstructive red-tape and officialdom the Rowse crab fishing family continues to demonstrate its faith in the future with yet another new build, the Harriet Eve. The boat is named after the youngest in the family who turned seven the day before - what a birthday present! - although one of her friends who came to the launch 'party' was gutted to find there were no cakes!

The boat represents a truly Cornish effort - with a myriad of local companies being brought together to create what is a shining example and triumph of technology over fishing boat design and build. Mark and Emma Rowse have personally overseen the fitting out of the boat - in less than 5 months - and with all the experience of years in the game and having fitted out an identical boat a few years ago (Emma Louise) the latest addition to the fleet oozes functionality, ease of fishing operation and vessel maintenance for skipper-to-be Richard Carrol and his crew.

Some years ago, the family firm decided that processing their own catch was a way of better profiting from the efforts of their skippers and crews working their growing fleet. They invested in a factory and the Real Cornish Crab Company was born and began to develop sales of crab in a burgeoning home market .

When Mark began fishing with his father Mike who skippered the port's biggest cabber, the Julian Paul almost 100% of the shellfish they landed was sold abroad - mostly to France. Today, around 15% of the Real Cornish Crab Company's fish follows suit, some 50% is now processed and consumed while an amazing 25% is flown, live, via Heathrow to China - from pot to plate in under 48 hours! 

The company can thank its success not to any external agency but to their personal dedication in ensuring that the boats not only fish sustainably (they fish for whelks too) but that every element of the operation is meticulously recorded - via the website they can tell a buyer exactly who, when and where there catch was caught and who and when it was processed.  

This is the first time a family firm in Newlyn has launched more than one new build of significant size in more generations than anyone can remember - real testimony to the combined efforts of all those who work for and with them.

Good fishing to skipper Richard Carrol and crew that sail the Harriet Eve!

The last #FishyFriday in March.

Two beam trawlers, two inshore trawlers and three netters for this morning's #FishyFriday market...

on Newlyn Harbour...

so there are plenty of quality flats like brill...

and plenty of Dover sole from the twin-rigger Elisabeth Veronique...

and plaice...

and, as ever, a handful of big cod...

straight from the boat early this morning, the biggest shot of John Dory was from the Spirited Lady making a late landing...

while the buyers were busy bidding...

the other end of the market was wall-to-wall with big white fish...

mainly the finest MSC Certified Cornish hake...

and a few of these guys...

there's always a handful of these guys with the bigger boats...

while Roger makes sure the Spirited Lady's  fish are sorted in time for the last sale of the morning...

popular pollack...

and lovely ling...

out in the harbour there's a couple of visitor

another regular visitor...

looks like it is refit time for the Cornishman

hardly a cat with sleek feline lines...

with the Scillonian III back in action there are dozens of gigs being shipped from Penzance dock across to the islands for the Scillys' World Gig Racing Championships.