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.
Morrab Library, one of the few, large independent libraries left in England has just been willed £600,000 by a local resident. Started in 1818, the library is adjacent to Penzance School of Art, the oldest art school in the country - booking are being taken for summer courses now - your chance to learn from local artsists making use of the famous west Cornwall light.......
a big heavy swell and onshore winds have left the beaches in Mount's Bay covered in seaweed, no doubt in Brittany hundreds would have flocked to the water's edge armed with bags for a free supply of garden manure.......
one week on and the damage to the prom has yet to be made good - or even cleared, times must be hard for the council.....
the buoy has escaped from its mooring again........
a single line of boxes on one end of the market, no beam or trawl fish today........
and just a handful of boxes at the netter end of the market......
from the Ajax, prices should be good........
basking in the glow of the morning sun. Jean Cabot's, Matthew.........
with the crew taking advantage of the good drying weather to get some hatch covers painted up.......
one of the prettier sterns in the harbour today........
as ever, the Bay was treated to a display of moody lighting effects.......
maybe someone knows something we don't..........
must be a few boats to choose from - see the for boats sale page.......
Mr and Mrs herring gull, even in the sea bird world it seems it's the male that does all the DIY......
just waiting for something to happen.......
or a sign even.......
out to sea looks like it's henting down out there!
