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Friday 28 April 2017

LIVE! - Scottish Inshore Fisheries Conference 2017

Take part in the opening debate at the Scottish Inshore Fisheries Conference 2017 from 9:00am this morning.

RIP Cathryn

Cathryn - a name synonymous with Cathryn Stevenson, one time matriarch of the fishing family and for many years...

the inshore trawler that bore her name in the port - until yesterday, when she was carefully lifted out of the water for the final time...

as far as we know, the man in the red boiler suit did survive the move...

here is the Cathryn some ten years ago...

landing to the market late one afternoon, her skipper for many years was one of Newlyn's fishing characters, a certain Edwin Madron, seen here hooking up a basket from his day's fishing...

for a small boat she had plenty of deck space owing mainly to her compact winch...

as a day boat she would leave the harbour early in the morning...

and return later - back in the day she often worked with one or two hands...

while in later years the hugely experienced ex-lifeboat Penlee lifeboat crew Edwin...

fished many trips single-handed, seemingly at times having to wrestle with the 'old girl' as he called her...

many years before the Cathryn, Edwin skippered the Nicola Marie before enjoying an extended break across the water in and around Dumnore East...

we can thank Tony Cuthbertson for capturing a little of the character that was Edwin on film - it would be a tough call to know who had the greater number of stories to tell, the Cathryn built in 1955 or Edwin!

Full of fish for #FishyFriday in Newlyn.

Almost a full house on the landings board this morning...

as Elka and Gary from Cefas sample otoliths and length measurements from some of the fish landed...

like these Dover soles...

langoustine are very much in vogue this week, another of Stevenson's beamers lands a few boxes...

along with these flat fish, not megrims but?...

the big tub gurnards came in 3s...

while the megs...

pollack...

and John Dory two by two...

big landing of megrims from the Sapphire II...

the otolith box...

eight tentacles are no good out of water...

these reds are just dying to end up on a charcoal grill...

big bass for the top end of the market, probably Chelsea bound...

as the buyers ponder the price...

of even bigger white fish like these cod from the prawn boats...

boxes of pristine whiting from visiting inshore trawler, Angelina...

looks like the end of an area, just a day after the ports second oldest fishing boat is taken away it looks like the port's oldest, the Excellent is about to be broken up and taken off the historic ship's register, a sad day indeed and a blow for the artists for whom the hull made an excellent study to capture on canvas...