A fleet of big Scottish prawn boats means the local fuel company is being kept busy supplying the boats on landing day with diesel...
and an eco-friendly alternative, HVO fuel - a 100% re-cycled vegetable alternative...
plenty more HGV action down the quay as the lorries wait to load frozen langoustine from the boats...
meanwhile, taking on a more sedentary position, master sign-writer Squirrel carefully fills in the words on skipper Shane's punt Ali-Cat as her annual refit nears completion...
while most of the netting feet are at sea the prawn fleet take advantage of the quay space to land at high water as the harbour can only accommodate modern deep draughted vessels in a relatively small area of the quays...
Sunday saw the Tranquility...
Andromeda...
Revival...
and Daystar landing
there's a little bit of name changing going on as the replacements for these 35 year old beamers are now in action, it's now just plain Blake having lost the Admiral status while the Gordon has taken on one of the Stevenson fleet names, Twilight...
did you hear the one about the Scotsman, Cornishman and Englishman...
Monday morning's market was full of fosh from all sectors of the industry, plenty of prawn boat congers...
new season spiders...
cracking inshore red mullet...
mighty head-on monk...
John Dory...
more and more of these tasty beasts...
and bass...
cuttles...
and signs a few more mackerel have found there way closer to the shore...
beam trawl red mullet...
quality from the prawnerss...
incluing more JDs...
Dovers...
and red mullet...
young Graham poised for action...
about to whisk away these quality megrim sole...
whiting...
and haddock were plentiful again this tide...
as were these reds...
and more megs the rewrads if fishing the grounds west of Lands End for prawns are great...
however, the normally unseen part of the job - the hours spent with knife and needle in hand, sometimes stretching into a second day or more, that never-ending cycle of mending smashed gear...
in this case, the guys from the Ocean Vision are busy sewing up selvedges...
to replace a huge chunk of missing net from the trawl...
or in Tom's case, measuring and splicing in the 25 fathom marks in the trawl wire that tells the man on the winch how much warp is out - normally, boats work three times the depth they are towing in...
whitefish coming ashore for the Boy Enzo...
into the waiting transport...
now it's the turn of the largest local trawler...
Crystal Sea to put their fish ashore...
that's another fender ready to go into the water to place the old gribble-worm farm...
well, yesterday was just a wind-up, it's back to normal weather-wise it seems, more wind and rain on the way says the forecast this morning;
Plymouth
WIND Southerly or southwesterly 4 to 6, occasionally 7 in north
SEA STATE Moderate or rough
WEATHER Rain or showers
VISIBILITY Good, occasionally poor
