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Friday, 15 March 2024

Newlyn port record broken again!


High water three days after one of the year's biggest tides is still keeping the netting fleet and others in port...



giving some of the local turnstones something to chat about...



and then you line up another shot and the resident seal decides to do what comes naturally paying little head to the regulation that says, 'no dumping at sea'...



virtually all the fish on the market this morning was from just one boat, like these monk tails...



scallops...



cuttles...



and then there were the flats like these brill...



and big turbot...

and boxes...



and boxes...


of Dover sole, well over £90,000 worth which, together with the rest of the trip meant that skipper Mike Kinnaird is the latest beam trawler skipper to hold the port record with a grossing of £120,400...



seen here, having avoided the crane, landing his trip at the market yesterday evening. No doubt there will be a few other local skippers in much more powerful boats looking to remove his title - if they can!