Summer must be coming, there's a brace of scallopers in Newlyn...
in the market there is not one box of big bass...
but half a dozen from the beam trawler Sapphire II...
along with a bog shot of white fish from the Britannia V...
a few smoothounds...
some perfectly pristine pollack...
magnificent monk...
and mackerel...
a handful of black bream...
and blackjacks or coley or saithe...
more bass...
plentiful plaice...
and a huge hauls of haddock...
some lovely ling...
and lemons...
and a few big John Dory...
according to the netter skippers, no matter where they shoot their nets they are catching haddock all round the Cornwall coast and out west - which would be fine if they had any quota - to put it in perspective - most of the hake netters have just landed their entire haddock quota for the year - this will be the bette-noir of the Landing Obligation due to come into force next year - as it will be the major #choke species to affect nearly every boat in the fleet...
meanwhile Falfish buyer Edwin points out which stacks of haddock he wants...
along with his gurnards...
and 13kg turbot...
a curly sole...
back in the black...
plenty of new deck plating going down below in the Nimrod.