A bright #FishyFriday Newlyn full of fine fish this morning!

Bonjour Bon Accord...

and a bonny day it is too in Englands foremost port for fishy species...

and lo!, first up is this week's #FishyFriday fish of the week, the mighty bass...

followed by some beam trawl caught Dover sole...

and some cracking pot-caught Mediterranean octopus...

some cracking monk tails...

quality red and grey gurnard...

a solitary tail-chasing conger...

name this fish...

head-on hake from the freshly re-fitted Ocean Pride...

more magnificent line caught mackerel...

a few mini megrims...

and plenty of pollack...

plenty of jigged squid on the market tis morning, mainly from the St Ives boats...

and some cracking netted tub gurnards...

and this lonely ling, once landed in huge quantities by the now defunct longline fleet that filled the harbour back in the 1950s-1970s...

the cod end or 'money bag' is where all the fish in a trawl end up before being hauled on deck...

while the other end of the trawl, the 'wings' begin the process of herding the fish before they pass over...

the footrope, a wire or chain threaded through rubber (recycled from old tyres) discs joined with the false fishing line which in turn is set on the actual fishing line protected by polypropylene rope wound round it to help protect it from chaffing to which the trawl mesh itself is attached...

looks like Stevenson's workhorse tugboat is almost set to return to her duties.