Tom busy keeping an eye on those still at sea...
on yet another dull, grey but relatively mild FishyFriday morning...
someone is fussy about what they eat it seems...
all three bays full of fish for the final market of the week...
with a good mix of fish and shellfish up for auction...
plenty of ray wings from Tom...
and some big squid...
looks like it's been a long night for some...
the beam trawlers, Billy Rowney...
and St Georges...
both landed some cracking red mullet, which, if you shop in Sicily are also known as goat fish, there are some who may well consider red mullet to be the greatest of all time but either way...
both these simple recipes bring out the best in this knock-out fish...
as ever, there were plenty of monk tails to be had...
and, as expected at this time, of year some good shots of squid and cuttles...
these spiky guys are becoming a regular feature of landings from some inshore boats...
cuttlefish have two very handy appendages for catching and hanging on to their supper...
young Cod had a few bass...
and his best pal had a few more...
this year the Mediterranean octopus invasion didn't happen, which for some was a bit of a disaster...
a box of wrigglers...
and tubs, another great eating red fish...
end-to-end stuff this week...
listening to BBC Spotlight earlier this week there was some remarkably ill-informed reporting with one speaker quite wrongly attributing half the white fish landings in Newlyn to scallop trawlers - even more remarkable when you think that Newlyn does not have any resident scallop boats and relies on landings from a fleet of small, and the occasional big, visiting boats in the summer months - the half a dozen boxes in this shot represent a typical landing from a beam trawler after a week at sea - it's telling when false information is used to provide the basis for the narrative...
while there are plenty more than 100 cod in the North Sea, the Western Approaches are almost devoid of cod these days, most likely attributable to the warmer water of the North East Atlantic we are experiencing these days, cod being a cold water loving fish...
good to sea monk heads being used for bait these days...
landing time for the Orion...
someone is hoping for breakfast to be thrown his way...
that's a mighty small trimaran for this time of year...
that's not a bow to argue with...
a brace of beamers home for the weekend..
there's some good crawfish trade at the moment.
