Busy mid-week fish market in Newlyn.

Just some of the thousand plus boxes landed on the market for this morning's market...

like these inshore John Dory...

undulate ray...

with their mysterious markings...

both types of ray that sport spots but which is which?..

some tagged line caught bass...

more meaty ray wings...

the odd big monk tail...

and the spotted and not so sotted plaice...

the inevitable dose of haddock...

and much more for tomorrow's market... 

the odd ling still finds ts way into people's nets...

while the St Ives boys continue to enjoy heavy mackerel fishing again...

staple diet for beam trawlers, monk fish...

a big beautiful line caught and tagged bass...

ready for packing...

as another handline fisherman heads out of the gaps...

Le Men Dhu one step closer to being ready for sea.

Padstow's pioneering lobster hatchery.

This little chap is juts one of 11,000 young lobsters that the amazing team at Padstow Lobster Hatchery have ready for distribution around the coast of Cornwall in the coming weeks..

here the hatchery's Ben Marshall explains how lobsters held in the centre...

don't  produce the familiar blue pigment when grown to tis size unless they are kept in the wild - the 11,000 lobsters are being looked after in a local Mussel Farm...

the hatchery took the decision years ago to invest in DNA sampling all the incoming female lobsters that are used to provide eggs for fertilisation - the results of that decision are now paying a huge dividend - recently it has come to light that as the result of a French lobster breeding programme back in the 1980s - which saw a few thousand lobsters bred in France and released into the waters off Sardinia - around 60% of lobsters tested in the Mediterranean are of Cornish-Breton decent!..

here Ben shows Matt Slater from the Cornwall Good Seafood Guide the holding boxes used to transport the tiny lobsters ready for seeding in the inshore waters around the coast.

Monday morning in Newlyn.

Unusually this turbot has no pigment on the topside...

the inshore boats made the most of a relativey quiet weekend weather-wise so boats like the Imogen III were able to get in some good hauls like these ray...

the odd bass...

Couch's bream...

and the odd red mullet

while Still Waters picked up more ray...

tell-tale tail but from which fish?..

good enough to eat...

this time of year is not megrim sole season...

though the odd John Dory still seems to find its way over young Roger Nowell's footrope and into his cod end...

the odd monk or two...

a good day's fishing for Still Waters, the only Newlyn boat with a regular female member of the crew!...

just a few with the beam trawlers that landed...

plenty of these guys in t Ives Bay - despite being chased by bluefin tuna and minke whales...

nice work Sheila T...

just some of the macs landed...

good to see young Edwin wide awake...

plenty of frozen bait ready for the pots on the good ship Nazarene...

well before sunrise it's the ever elusive Cod at speed heading for another day handlining for bass...

Girl Pamela leaves the fishmarket...

Trinity House's Patricia at anchor...

with not a breath of wind to disturb the waters in Mounts Bay...

always good to see the Ivan Ellen tucked up in her berth...

Chris Morley making ready...

 to spend another day on the pollack and bass...

as a little more light breaks into the sky...

with the new lifeboat house...

and gigs enjoying the light, even though the temp is around 0˚...

seems we have a new Xmas tree in Keel Alley this year courtesy of Newlyn Harbour Lights - made entirely from discarded trawl net and other plastic fishing gear - hats off to all those helping Newlyn to maintain its green credentials!