Boats were left sitting in the mud ...
or high and dray in Newlyn harbour yesterday
it is thought the leak was caused by an excavator working on the new Resource Centre foundations...
Boats were left sitting in the mud ...
or high and dray in Newlyn harbour yesterday
This coming Wednesday, the APPG has recruitment to the industry on its agenda - a huge issue facing the industry.
One aspect, and one that was visited on the industry out of the blue by the MCA, was making it an offence for anyone under the age of 16 to go to sea on a commercial fishing vessel.
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Tom Lambourn handlining with Barry Chivers |
Wind the clock back to 2009, the blond youngster in this photo aboard Barry Chiver's punt is a 9year old, Tom Lambourn - Tom is currently skipper of the sardine boat Lyonesse and his own netter/potter, My Lass. Tom started fishing with Barry aged six, with just 6 hooks on his mackerel handline! After taking A levels and getting a university degree - he then returned to Newlyn to fish full time..
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12-year old Eric and the crew of the Keriolet |
This is the crew of the hake netter, Keriolet taken in '90s on Douarnenez fish market with an 8 ton trip of hake. The boat had been fishing in the Irish Sea, on their way to France to land they picked up the youngster, then aged 12, from Newlyn. Three days after leaving school aged 16 he was on the same boat headed away on his first trip. After seven years of fishing he moved over to working on seismic vessels all over the world and is currently working off Norway.
"I started going on boats as soon as I could walk. I used to go in the winter mackerel catching on the Cornish Queen at about 9 years old. Also on the Castle Wraith with Jack Murt and Boako. Went out summer times on the Trazbar with Barney and Traz. And any boat that I could jump on for a day out. Was down the harbour skiffing with the Paynters from about 8 or 9 skiffing the visitors out to the Cornish Bell and Cornish Queen. First boat I worked on leaving school was the Bev-Van-Dan which was owned by Danny Paynter. Boy Billy (Stevenson) put the money up for that one."
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It's 2009 and a 13-year old Tom Mursa is learning the ropes from Stuart McClary, one of St Ive's top handliners. |
I loved working with Stuart McClary and still do from time to time to lend a hand. I’ve come a long way since then. I now own the tripping pleasure boats in st Ives. The likes of Blue Thunder & Blue Lightning RIB Rides and the Seal Island Aquastar tripping boat.But I will definitely say one thing. I would never been able to do what I do without being involved in the fishing industry as a youngster.
With Stuart I learnt how to handle a boat, how to tie knots and splice ropes. Make up moorings and of course learn the ground for fishing and wildlife.
A fine start to the week...
with plenty of fish filling the market this morning...
head-on monk from the visiting Scottish prawners...
big bug-eyed ling...
and a fridge full if inshore line caught fish...
and eight-leggers...
there was solid mackerel fishing over the weekend for the punt men...
while netters like the Ajax...
and Ygraine filled their fishrooms with hake...
and the big beamer landed a good shot of Dovers...
and a few pollack...
go for a cuppa of course in the ice works tea house...
before their wagons are loaded...
Resource Centre in action...
first 2025 season weekday trip for the Scillonian III...
Penzance wet dock is busy this morning...
after playing host to the 60m luxury yacht, Akula registered in Bloody Bay
loading the Scilly boat...
the Guardian is in for some light work...
while the Dry Dock undergoes a massive refit...
Arnie keeps up the fitness levels with plenty of fresh fruit, must have taken a leaf from his La Rochelle rugby playing son's diet sheet...
the Gry Maritha basking in the morning sun prior to oading...
Plymouth Marine Laboratory's, Plymouth Quest almost six months after entering the dock for a few repairs and a little refit...
is due to undergo sea trials this week, which should put even bigger smiles on these two old salt's faces
Fishing IS Freedom - sign up for the Commercial Fishing Taster course in Newlyn and find out more...
local plein air painter, Clare catching some contre-jour action in the early hours...
quite a busy market for a #FishyFriday and the promise of really busy one on Monday...
just the one cod again...
good tyo see the handliners in action...
scad, one of the five named fosh in the South West Pelagic Fish FMP...
good selection of flats from the beamer...
pollack landings continue despite the 'total ban', which, ironically, affected the only boat in the harbour to target pollack 100% using hook and line - you couldn't make it up!...
quality tubs...
box of black bream to keep some restaurants happy...
a brace of John Dory for the Scotsman...
while tyhe beamer landed Dovers...
megrim...
and turbot...
the netters like the Ajax came in with good shots of hake...
just look at the quality of those blood-red gills...
another old-timer putting his back into it...
oops...
the Stelissa also found hake...
no boat seems to escape finding dogs on the grounds...
out the door they go...
all smiles despite the triple shift!..
work on the Fishing Resource Centre is now well underway...
yet more pots...
a bevvy of visiting beamers from Brixham...
someone must have cleaned out the seat lockers...
Newlyn stands with Ukraine.