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Friday 12 August 2016

#FishyFriday is here again!






A good mix of trawl, inshore and net fish this morning...

a few big cod...



came under the spotlight of the Bloomsberg reporter...


along with lemon sole...


Doversole...


plaice...


red gurnard and red mullet...


a smattering of John Dory...


and even a few boxes of langoustine...


to go with a big run of hake...


and a smattering of summertime blue sharks...


old and new hull shapes in wood and steel...


the weather is fine enough to see Arthur at Goonhilly on the Lizard...


both rigged beam trawls are back on the Lisa Jacqueline...


sporting their new huge rubber wheels which are designed to roll rather than drag along the seabed  to reduce fuel consumption and costs...


the Twilight III is still in the process of sorting out teething problems after her mammoth refit...


50% of the UK's border patrol boats are in Newlyn today...


out with the old...


in with the new, Penlee's new ILB, Mollie & Denti...


Victoria Ann off to sea on a quiet morning...


bow on of theRadiance...


with one of her trawls on deck for mending...


there's the Scillonian III in there somewhere...


nights on a mooring are not always so calm...


at the PZ Gallery...


the current show...


of prints and slides...


celebrates the best summer in living memory, The Summer of '76...



a date for later in the month.

Thursday 11 August 2016

Comings and goings in Newlyn on a Thursday.


From the smallest...



to the biggest


the weight of a tractor towed on the end of the trawler's warp ensures that the warp is wound on the drum of the winch tightly...


clearing the deck of the, 'Little Tiger', the William...


in and about to land, the Padstow registered, Charisma...


some of the best fish coming ashore...


from the inshore trawler, Cloudy


and around 70 boxes of hake form the Charisma...



while the Lowestoft registered trawler, Reliance puts in an appearance for the first time...

then in the evening its off to a port on the north coast...


easily identified by a plethora greedy and aggressive gulls.

Wednesday 10 August 2016

Wednesday in Newlyn


Just the one beamer, Filadelfia on the market this morning...


giving the guys a chance to practice their moves...


a handful of brill...


one or two blues...


and the ever-present red gurnard...


outside the market the Britannia V landed...


while inside the moves continued...


with a handful of hake...


and summer mackerel...


to compliment the flats from the beamer...


some more deft moves...


were being made during landing...


on a flat calm morning...


under a relatively cloud-free sky...


state-of-the-art pilot boat...


the rowing crew form the Round Cornwall Challenge made ready to leave the harbour...


with some real muscle aboard...


to power the gig around the Cornish coast line...


escorted by the Fowey Sea Farms vessel...


one Cornish flag, post Brcxit message.

Monday 8 August 2016

Monday morning's market.


Just the three inshore trawlers who worked over the weekend made it back to port for this morning's market...


so Gary was not so pushed for time sampling and collecting otoliths from the landings...


with nut much fish prices were kept relatively high...


especially for these guys...


and the fish that once were seldom caught by inshore boats are now dumped at times because of quota issues...


several hundred kilos of the very finest line caught pollack from the Sea Spray...


a fresh day yesterday kept the marina berths full over the weekend.

Friday 5 August 2016

Tiz #FishyFriday in Newlyn


Name this seaside fish...


beasts from the deeps


looks like tis cod swam into a brick wall...


the 'ansum 'ake...


almost more buyers than boxes on this quiet #FishyFriday...


the biggest boat in the port is on the slip...


8 dredges a side on the old Sapphire...


sardine boats at the ready.