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Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Netter's nightmare

Image courtesy of NOAA
With the wind averaging well over 30 knots and held firmly in the west.........
Image courtesy of the Met Office
 as a huge area of low pressure passes slowly over the Bristol Channel


there are only a handful of boats at sea still fishing. However, a big French stern trawler, the St Gothard, is towing very close to where the Newlyn netter, Silver Dawn is working. So close in fact that it looks as though she may have towed right over where the Silver Dawn appears to have a tier of nets - see where the two AIS tracks cross in the bottom sector of the image.