Newlyn has the largest mix of fishing methods of any port in the UK, many of them small-scale fishermen, for them and all the other inshore fishermen, today we doff our fishing caps in respect of them continuing to supply our tables with the very best fish...
but, with the weather providing truly seasonal 40 knot-plus winds gave all the netting fleet still fishing to the end of this neap tide an uncomfortable run home...
to land their catches ...
at an already packed fish market this morning, with a big trip of beam trawl fish from the Enterprise the crabbers will be kept in fresh bait for a day or two...
while several of the inshore trawlers stuck out some heavy ground seas over the weekend to fill up with ray...
the Enterprise also picked up a good landing of cuttles...
and her own shot of undulate ray...
and like many it seems a few bass...
as did Tom on the Guardian...
more ray wings from the Millenia...
and another sure sign that the planet is changing, Mediterranean octopus now being caught in numbers by the crabbers working offshore...
more big bass, this time line caught...
and more...
and, if it wasn't bass or mackerel, those handline boats rigged for it, got their teeth stuck into jigged squid
and no doubt the odd red mullet came via some inshore nets...
good to see Cap'n Cod getting a good result from his squid lures...
the re's black bream...
and a single Couch's bream from the Spirited Lady III...
and a good shot of pollack from the netter, Annie May...
those congers just can't help getting caught...
along with a few JDs...
a handful of those very tasty weavers, if you haven't, try one!..
the last time I saw one of these was while netting on the Labadie Bank aboard the Keriolet...
and according to many authorites, the Sevengill or bluntnose shark is seldom if ever seen in the North Atlantic...
also unusual, but not so rare, the Greater Forkbeard...
scad are a by-catch, normally targeted in quantity by big pelagic boats...
the amount of hake landed this morning from the Ygraine and the Stelissa dwarfed the staff...
with some 6 kilo plus fish put ashore...
bull huss...
and yet more ray...
were all landed by the inshore trawl fleet tat all had a good weekend's fishing despite the heavy ground sea...
it would be good to see the Waterdance fleet put their fish on Newlyn's auction instead of increasing the carbon footprint of the fish all being transported to Brixham for auction and then for much of it making its way back to Cornwall for processing!...
and with the forecast giving 8s and 9s...
the biggest boats in the fleet were lucky that their landing day coincided with the strong winds and heavy seas..
including this second time visitor, the Icelandic owned UK flagged and Inverness registered Njord Venture...
which certainly fishes some areas that are not traditionally looked at by local trawlers except for the cuttles south east of Start Point...
more crab coming ashore from the biggest and newest addition to the Waterdance crabber fleet, Winter of Ladram...
a poor enough morning for the Gry Maritha dodging off the Mount...
the immaculate Winter...
two very different sterns...
looks like it's all hands on deck to get the 'Fish' ready for opening...
the Rowse crabbing feet in port...
as the netters queue to land.
