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Friday, 8 May 2026

Fine #FishyFriday in Newlyn this morning

Just a reminder the the Fishermen's Mission will be holding services the length and breadth of the UK this Sunday  on National Fishermen's Remembrance Day, there will be a service at 11am by the memorial statue in Newlyn, or the Centre if wet!


Barely a ripple in the harbour this morning...


chasing eight-leggers with any pot will do it seems...


hopefully squid will be too quick for them...



that's a cracking brace of bream...

there's two sides to every megrim...



the bay is full of urchins...


and mackerel...


plenty of bass for those prepared to make the long steam...


lobsters this black are the finest money can buy, if you're very lucky, coming to a fish counter near you courtesy of the Wiffer...


JDs don't come much bigger than this beauty...


or redder then these red mullet...


a ton and a half of the finest octopi, it was not so long ago that there were no octopus being caught on the north coast of Cornwall - as this huge haul from the St Ives based Keriolet shows, things have moved on...


pristine pollack...


these claws have probably been crushing fish for twenty years longer than the hands holding them have been on the planet...


busy end to the week, yet another auction stacked out with fish...


monk livers makes a delicious paté


much needed bait for the crabber fleet...


finally, a flat calm morning to herald in the weekend.