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Wednesday 30 October 2019

Despite the poor fishing weather there are 11 EU and flagged vessels all with 30 miles of Newlyn.


Although the weather has blown all but a handful of local boats back to port there are 11 boats in the waters around Lands End, 2 Newlyn beam trawlers, 6 Breton stern trawlers...


a Belgian beam trawler showing his route over the last few weeks...


two Spanish Flag of Convenience vessels that have steamed up from La Corunna...


one of which was the Suffolk Chieftain, an ex-Lowestoft trawler now converted to longlining - she was once part of a large fleet of similar sidewinder trawlers that worked from the port all with the prefix Suffolk...


and a Dutch freezer trawler which stuck close to the 12 mile limit while assumedly looking for fish marks to shoot her trawl...


before commencing fishing about 20 miles NW of Padstow.