Tweeted by @JessicaS_PZ last night - There are 5 trawlers fishing close by in Mounts Bay at the moment - never seen that before. Big shoal of fish? #penzance #newlyn
The Cornish Sardine boats were out in force in Mount's Bay last night. Only the Asthore is fitted with AIS which gives us a chance to follow the boat as skipper Peter Bullock traverses close inshore in the hunt for a suitable mark of fish. Fishermen use the term 'mark' that once described the patterns left on the old paper type echo sounders that were used to find fish before electronic versions were introduced.