With 8s, 9s, 10s and 11s forecast in the Southwest Approaches, dusk falls over the harbour on Thursday evening as the Silver Dawn lands to the fish market...
with that forecast the market is end-to-end with fish from six boats landing overnight...
which meant plenty of top quality hake from the Ygraine...
Stelissa...
and Silver Dawn...
there were boxes of good haddock to go with their hake too...
the Trevssa IV was one of four beam trawlers to land...
including the Louisa N...
with the Easter holidays about to begin fish are the popular choice for dining in or out so monk...
lemons...
Dovers...
and John Dory will be first choice for many...
those who know will be cheered to see a few of these most excellent eating beauties on the market this morning...
red mullet are a frim favourite...
as are the top drawer turbot...
and brill.
equally tasty are plaice...
and for anyone put off by bones what better than ray wings...
the weather has not been kind to the inshore guys in their small boats so any chance of the new grading machine being put to use has yet to present itself...
two grey mullet...
and three boxes of mackerel were the sum total of this mornings inshore landings...
evidence that the numbers of these invasive fish are on the up comes from the fact that this beast was caught by a gillnet and not pot or trawl...
as this chart as published this week in the Breton fishing press further indicates...
with the severe weather hampering fishing it is not not surprising that there are a number...
of visiting vessels tucked up in port...
from up the line...
including two yachts...
one being this intrepid small Norwegian double-ender...
looks like a few hours work is needed on one of the Crustal Sea's trawls...
just some of the debris trawled up, the nylon net would have no doubt come from a Breton boat...
transport links for fish are second-to-none these days...
as is the seemingly never ending number of new pots being ordered and put to use around Lands End...
with most boats owning their own boxes the harbour now has a logistical challenge looking after them once they have been landed and cleaned...
the erroneously named May blossom, not even April yet!..
Newlyn does its bit for securing a more wholesome environment for the future...
always good to see harbour boxes dropped back where they belong...
we miss the old boy and his papers - btw, if anyone has one of Dave Barron's old fish frails hidden away, let me know!