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.
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Sunday 27 November 2011
Donal Turtle - Gone fishing Gone.
The funeral for retired skipper and owner Donald Turtle will be held this Friday at St Peter's Church in Newlyn...........
published in 2005, Donald's seagoing memoirs recounted a life at sea beginning in South Shields as a trainee merchant seamen during WW2 and the Atlantic convoys
until the time he handed over the last of the family boats, the netter and liner Ben Loyal to his son John Turtle. Donald was a firm believer in conservation and fished with longlines for many years, even after most other boats in the fleet had long since ceased. Other boats in the family over the years were the Bonny Mary and the Mayflower - sadly, the Through the Gaps archive is missing photos of these.
