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.
Ajax AH32 - 24 hours steaming - the binge workers are away again!
Living the dream...........
after steaming for more than 10 hours to land her mid-tide trip of hake into Newlyn, the Ajax is now outbound and heading back to the fishing grounds where her gear is still 'fishing' anchored to the bottom. Always a concern when a netter does this is that a Spanish or French trawler will tow through the nets without ralising they are there. Netters will work together in this regard and share information by giving each other the position of a 'box' - the lattitude and longitude readings for the four corners of an imaginery box drawn around the extremities of the tiers of nets - allowing an extra distance to provide further protection.
