Plenty of action alongside the fish market this morning...
with three big pot boats landing trips of octopi...
inside Bay 1 of the market there were plenty of inshore fish from the trawlers that made the most of the fine weather over the weekend...
though a dozen or so boxes of hake was not quite what the netter Stelissa had in mind for a trip...
whereas a good few boxes of plaice and ray made a good trip for the Martha Mae...
and these gurnards will make for a dazzling display on someone's wet fish counter later today...
blue sharks are more of a summer favourite...
though much more lucrative are these craws picked up by...
Spanish Eyes doing a proper bit of inshore fishing...
the boys on the deck of the Stelissa will have been less than impressed with this amount of dogs in their nets - not what the doctor ordered - once upon a time this would have been a good trip but after years of a total ban on landing dogfish the markets ashore dried up so that now the fish make very little money as there are no merchants geared up to take them in bulk any more...
fishing always seems to provide a bumper harvest and at the moment it is the turn of Mediterranean octopus...
to hit the headlines...
just some of the catch from one of the boats is already in the marke...
el congero...
one reason the sardine boats are having a hard time catching fish is the presence of marauding bluefin and dolphins chasing the shoals hard...
some handliners have been busy on the bass again...
and the Inter-Nos did make good a landing of sardines despite the presence of apex predators...
a few canny men went after squid with the jigs, Gary on the Bethshan having really got in amongst them...
there's a box with a tally on it in there somewhere...
one tide's worth for young Andrew...
inshore red mullet always look good enough to eat straight out of the water...
and the size of these mackerel is encouraging...
more bass to go away...
however, the handliners cannot compete with net boats when it comes to bass...
here is the boat in question under construction for a Mevagissey skipper...
meanwhile the boys on the Isabellai are hard at it landing their latest haul of octopi...
and the eight-leggers are alive and crawling!
