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Monday, 1 June 2026

Monday morning Mediterranean octopus mayhem!

Misty Monday morning start to the week...


with the latest crabber and a guard ship up on the hard...

the market was end-to-end with fish again after yet more fine weather saw all the fleet at sea...


landings from the netters included some big mackerel seldom seen these days...


boxed fish were stacked so high the tallest man on the market was barely visible...


mok and megrims, standard fayre from the big beam trawler...


one of these lobsters is asleep...


hake from the Silver Dawn...


Ocean Vision...


and Ajax...


wwre just dome of the fish crammed in the market...



there was plenty of John Dory...


and a shining example of a silver Dory, a fish far more common in Mediterranean waters...


the misty western end of the market was awash with fellow Mediterranean fish...


along with these lobsters safely tucked up in a bed of seaweed......


young Mr Smith aboard the Maverick touched on a few good line caught pollack...


while Mr Pascoe enjoyed some bass fishing from the Huers...


meanwhile, the Winter of Ladram arrived at the end of the Marty Williams pier and threw her lines ashore...


and it's all smiles from the Filipino guys aboard the red Revival adjusting the for'ard spring...


as skipper Jonathon Jack begins the process of landing his trip of frozen langoustine...


from the bowels of the family boat...


Revival with her unusual working arrangement whereby the trawl footropes, bridles and warps pass ver the shelterdeck...


and under the spacious wheelhouse...


looking aft over the twin-rig net drums......



she is one of the regular prawn fleet from Scotland to fish down in the south west all of whom were stopped from fishing in the last 24 hours after new MAFF regulations demanded an increase in mesh size for parts of the trawl - not something that can be done easily at sea in between hauls...

net alterations and mending for the sardine fleet continue ashore...

as a few more tons of octopus make their way down the harbour...


a brace of trawlers...


high tech water spray solution designed to keep the gulls which cannot control themselves from whitening the bow of the Enterprise!




 


Friday, 29 May 2026

Final #FishyFriday in May - 8 not 4 legs are good!

Tranquil sart to Friday with the latest boat to join the pot fleet up on the hard...


staple diet for beam trawlers at this time of year, megrim sole...


Dover sole...


and lemon sole...


good sized blue...


monk cheeks, a stir-fry special if you can get them...


the painful greater weaver - hence the dorsal fins have been removed...


when you catch a load of these...


and what you really wanted was a load of these...


even the bass man has put pots out for tese guys, why not join in the octopus bloom?!


Mr Pascoe stuck to what he knows best...


with boxes of bass...


and still they come, the 'bloom' is still blooming...


maybe boats like this will be a more familiar sight in the futire if certain plans get the green light.


 


Tuesday, 26 May 2026

Newlyn fish market awash with fish!

The Bank Holiday weekends saw just one of the Scottish prawn boats landing...


the ex-Girl Pat III's scalloping set-up...


it's all about the cardboard boxes to pack langoustine in and plenty of pallets to load them into the waiting artic...


marine leisure pursuits are increasing in volume and diversity from the harbour...


the biggest of the crabbers landing...


and one of the smallest boats with Barry at the helm heads for the gaps...


grey mullet are a common sight in the harbour at this time of year...


always in search of an easy breakfast...



it's spider crab season...


a few zarts, as St Ives men call them...


the market on Tuesday morning was end-to-end with fish...


hake...


Dory...


and, unusually, Scottish boat monk tails...


and witches from the Vision V


there were also plenty of JDs landed from the inshore boats...


quality brill from the big beamer...


now, which box of megrims is which?..


pollack landings have been in the news again recently...


summer reds galore...


and more tails...


from the St Georges...


half the market...


and most of the fridge was taken up with octopi...


not that landings of the favourite food for them...


need much space...


or these hen's teeth...


but, for some, there are shoals of bass to chase!