'Tiz a wet Monday morning in Newlyn.

Pelagic Marksman about to take on ice in preparation for tonight's sardine fishing trip - the 12 tons that she put ashore was more than that landed by five other boats that were also fishing last night...

just the one netter trip on the market this morning from the Stelissa...

comprising mostly of hake...

beam trawl fish came from the Twilight III...

by weight, mostly megrim and monk...

just enough to keep the assembled buyers happy...

for a small inshore trawler the New Venture lands some excellent hauls of quality fish......

Tom picked up a few good John Dory...

while the good ship Elisabeth Veronique weighed in with monk a-plenty...

top quality line caught pollack in limited numbers from the inshore boats...

yet another Mediterranean octopus made it to market...

tales of two fish, but which fish and which is which?..

superb John Dory still being landed by the inshore boats...

name the fish to which these tails belong...

cuttlefish ink looking more like some tide-flow chart...

good weather meant that all of Newlyn's inshore trawlers managed to put in trips over the weekend...

red mullet look as good as they taste when cooked correctly...

scallops and cuttles from the beam trawler...

this year has seen a record number of Scottish scallopers like the Summer Rose...

purpose built for the job...

working south of Newlyn, one of the biggest, Albion is amongst them.

Does a Brexit without a deal really leave half the French fishermen at the dock?

In the wake of the loss of the majority for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons, France believes that a Brexit without agreement would represent, today, the most likely scenario.

French trawler running from the Brexit storm.

While the issue of Brexit continues to stir the British Parliament, France continues to consider the consequences of leaving the European Union of the United Kingdom without agreement with Brussels. To listen to François-Xavier Bellamy, MEP LR, Wednesday, September 4 on RTL, 50% of French fishermen would stay at docks in case of Brexit hard.

No, only 30% of French fishermen who would be affected.

Thanks to the European rules in force since the 70's, France is free to go fishing in British waters. Moreover, it does not deprive itself, even if a quota system exists. In total, France is looking for around 170,000 tonnes of fish a year in British waters. This represents 30% of its total fishing, according to the national committee of marine fisheries and marine farms. This represents 30% on average, but this figure rises to 50% for Brittany, the leading fishing region in France. It even reaches 75% for the Hauts-de-France, including the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, only about twenty kilometers from British waters.

What would a Brexit represent for French fishermen? Hard to know precisely. What is certain is that Teresa May tried in January, during the agreement negotiated with Brussels, to propose solutions for the post-Brexit. A text which would maintain, at least for a while, the current conditions of access to the territorial waters of the Member States and fishing limits. Time to negotiate a new agreement next year.

That was, therefore, in case of exit from the negotiated EU. Without an agreement with the Member States, in the event of a "no deal", and therefore a hard Brexit, the United Kingdom can unilaterally block access to its waters for all European fishermen. Any fishing on its territory will be subject to prior authorisation. But it is only in the case of a total ban on fishing that 30% (and not 50%) of French fishermen would remain at the dockside.

No, European guidelines to help fishermen have already been adopted.

It should also be noted that the European Commission has already considered this "hard Brexit" scenario. And even adopted two emergency measures at the beginning of the year. The first is to allow fishermen from the Member States to receive compensation under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund for the temporary cessation of fishing activities.

The second amends the regulation on the sustainable management of external fleets. In short, it aims to grant EU waters access to United Kingdom vessels until the end of 2019, provided that EU vessels also benefit from reciprocal access to waters of the United Kingdom.

But the Commission itself acknowledges that these emergency measures will not be able to fully mitigate the consequences of a "no deal", nor will they fully replicate the benefits of EU membership, nor the conditions of a possible transition period.


Full story from France TV

September's first #FishyFriday in Newlyn.

Sardines are fished all round the globe using large ring or purse net, there's a huge sardine fishery off the coast of South America including Peru...

skipper and crew form the sardine boat Resolute are here pulling off  their brand new net...

from a Peruvian net manufacturer before making final adjustments and getting it aboard the boat ready for fishing next week...

the latest boats to join the Rowse potter fleet, Bon Accord and Cresca...

a handful of boxes from those inshore boast that managed to get to sea yesterday along with just a couple of beam trawl trips on the market this morning...

though fish seem quiet scarce at the moment...

at first sight, who knew you could eat what is inside these spiky little chaps?..

or even these guys...

turbot make exceptional eating of course, big, white flakes of meat...

while grey mullet have an almost earthy taste to them...

summer season sardines are one pf those fish that just beg to be given the BBQ treatment...

with so little fish on the market the auction draws to a close not long after 7am...

the off conger...

and prime plaice sold and ready to go...

heavy clouds crowd the harbour foretelling a degree of dampness in the air for the day...

the Joy of Ladram, last of the netters left in port......

classic tallship, Lady Avenel...

is available for charter or a wide range of sailing trips around the coastal waters of England, Scotland and Ireland...

one of many visiting yachts makes a dash for the gaps before the forecast strong breeze arrives...

a busy day on the quay for the scalloper, Olivia Jean re-rigging their starboard side dredge beam.

UK's largest scalloper lands in Newlyn.

The UK's largest scalloper, Albion makes her way to the gaps under skipper Will Gillespie...

on a very tranquil Wednesday morning...

the Albion fishes all year all round the UK looking for the most productive scallop beds...

she was closely followed by the sardine boat Pelagic Marksman...

going about their business...

getting ready to land a few tons of sardines...

Smart work, the joys of being a fish buyer...

the insulated tubs are lined up...

ice added...

and the first brail of fish swung ashore...

clip grabbed...

and sardines drop into the tubs...

then another...

and another...

then topped off with more ice...

and the process repeated until the hold is empty...

Falmouth based Spencer Carter designed and built this one-off hauler for Pelagic Marksman skipper Stefan Glinski...

young George Cleave heads back to port Isaac after a slack mornings purchases on a rather scant market...

as the Pelagic Marksman heads back to her berth for the day - she will head out to sea again chasing sardines around 6pm this evening.