A busy week and plenty of fish for the final July #FishyFriday market.

 

Mid-week and two working boats and a gin palace all enjoyed yet another flat-calm misty morning in Mounts Bay...

as Robert and... 

and the rest of the team grade and weigh their way through hundreds of boxes landed by the fleet for a typical FishyFriday auction...

meanwhile, when they are not at sea hauling their nets from the seabed crews are hard at work mending them...

looks like it wont be long before the concrete mixers trun up to flood the newly laid floors in the...

new Resource Centre which is quickly taking shape on the site of 

refrigerated transport ready and waiting to be loaded...

always good to see young Barry bringing home the catch...

things are really moving ahead down the Old Quay with the installation of water and electricity to replace the corroded pipework of the past...

he left to fish, now he's back again...

only the walls and roof to go...

meanwhile in the Training Hib the new recruits from harbours all round Cornwall literally learning the ropes,...

like wrestling with a simple eye splice...

learning how to braid trawl meshes...

make a clove hitch...

rolling hitch...

or tie that most useful of knots, the bowline...

all under the watchful eye of the rope maestro, Nigel Taylor...

as the nine keen young recruits near the end of their Seafood Cornwall Training's Introduction to Fishing course...

though this guy seems to have found it all too much!