Welcome to Through the Gaps, the UK fishing industry's most comprehensive information and image resource. Newlyn is England's largest fish market and where over 50 species are regularly landed from handline, trawl, net, ring net and pot vessels including #MSC Certified #Hake, #Cornish Sardine, handlined bass, pollack and mackerel. Art work, graphics and digital fishing industry images available from stock or on commission.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
When pots succumbed to the divers.
British Pathe have huge archives of movie film shot all round the UK.There are a number of short clips featuring Newlyn. In this clip, which documents a period in fishing history when divers took advantage of huge stocks of sedate crayfish, a few faces from the past are caught in action - can names be put to faces?
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