Fishy start to the week in Newlyn.

For the last few days Newlyn has seen tripods appearing all around the harbour...

as a team of surveyors from WSP get to work on their site survey...

in the meantime, lead has been found in the water supply and a central source of fresh wayer has been brought in for all boats who have been instructed not to use the harbour's water supply for drinking until the issue is resolved...

that's another quay fender built and ready for action...

guard ship Karima on standby...

more pots to add to the thousands already deployed...

the Pelagic Marksman has taken on a portable fish pump system to offload their catch...

with a serious pumping capacity...

keen interest from an Italian news outlet filming the Inter-Nos as she moves to the ice berth...

as they cover tyhe story of modern-day sardine fishing - almost 100% of pilchards caught in the 18th and 20th centuries were cured in salt and exported to Italy...

the harbour is busy most evenings from 6:30pm as the sardines boats prepare to take ice and sail...

landing at well before midnight...

another 7 tons of fish going ashore from the Mayflower...

which was full of fish from the inshore fleet...

as well as a cracking trip of hake...

 from the Britannia V...

Tom had a few JDs...

and there was the inevitable splattering of dogs...

as well as some line caught bluefin tuna...

what's the betting some of these beautiful gilt-head bream will show up in London tomorrow?..

mackerel landings were strong too...

plus a handful of bonny bonitos...

time for the fleet to sleep.