Newlyn's final #FishyThursday market for the month of March.

Traditionally, the market preceding Good Friday was always one of the strongest for prices as an entire nation opted to eat fish for Easter...

and what an impressive dish either of these two specimen fish would make on the table tomorrow...

Thursday's market was choc-a-block with fish from four beat trawlers, monk from the Trevessa IV...

sand soles from big Don on the Filadelfia...

a lonely black bream and a few boxes of red mullet from the St Georges...

a tasty lot of monk cheeks and liver from the Sophie Grace...

getting a closer look from one of the smart merchants...

the netter, Charisma also picked up a few big mackerel in her nets...

while Sid on the Karen made another good landing of MSC Certified hake...

including these two 7+ kilo fish...

thought there were several hundred boxes of hake for the buyers to choose from....

the odd brill, like turbot, sometimes get pigments on their normally pristine white bellies...

the buyer and the boat...

name that big white fish tail...

the netter, Silver Dawn landed her whitefish on Newlyn for the first time in a while...

check out the freshness of those blood-red gills...

and sparkling eyes, sure signs of quality fish...

another beamer, the Algrie landed a good selection of flats like these brill...

and the market also saw a handful of spurdogs back on sale again...

the downside of fishing for cuttles - the ink gets into everything including these not-so-red mullet...

and even big turbot...

looks like the lemons are more resilient to their ink though...

big ray and their big tails...

let sleeping ling lay...

pristine pollack from Tristan's Silver Dawn...

oodles of octopuses - if octopus was derived from Latin it would be octopi - but it isn't, octopus is from Greek...

oodles of buyers clamouring for fish...

a glimpse of the new market chill room this morning...

and sight of the new flooring made possible by having a bone dry market floor for the first time since it was built...

fish exit the market...

and it is still dark outside...

more than a few hours work in the St Georges for the boys on deck...

taking on new gear...

which came from the back of a lorry...

the visiting Dutchman, Zuiderzee...

is busy repairing his starboard beam trawl after landing to the back of a lorry...

two of the Nowell girls...

one new crabber's wheelhouse in the making...

now there's a bit of light in the sky...

Z38 Zuiderzee at rest...

looking towards Penlee Point and the old Penlee Lifeboat station home and now memorial to Penlee Lifeboat, Solomon Browne...

there are now only a handful of big varnish-hulled fishing boats in the UK and the immaculate Britannia V is one of them...

don't miss the first Newlyn International Film Festival coming to the Centre next month...

ever wondered how don't seabirds get frostbite on their naked feet?

Fishing News CFP article including Mogen Schou's roadmap for the future of EU fishing.

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If only a 10 year old could solve the problem.

It's always encouraging to see someone have a go at deconstructing the fishing industry and its management of stocks by the EU - especially when masquerading as a 10 year old.  This podcast merits a watch and listen - though I'm not so sure how many in the industry would accept the premise that, NGOs "know exactly what to do". Eating a wider variety of fish is commendable and will ease the pressure on certain stocks as will talking and spreading the words about just how good eating fish is!

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In this episode, Camille receives Member of EU Parliament Linnéa Engström to talk fish quotas, AgriFish Council meetings and governance of the commons. EU Ministers forgo moral scientific and legal obligations and that's not OK. With this simple story, they highlight a part of our EU institutions that doesn't work and discuss what we can do about it.

They suggest three things you can do to help end overfishing:

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2. Try the fishes that are different! Reducing the demand for most popular fishes will help balance the quotas (check out www.fishisthedish.co.uk)
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Mid-week fish market in Nelwyn - first Scottish prawns for the season!

See you Jimmy! the first of this season's...

 Scottish prawn trawlers...

 the Asteria...

 landed this morning...

while the visiting crabber loaded up with more bait from the fridge...

Wednesday's market was boosted by the presence of three beam trawlers...

a handful of mackerel boats...

and all the whitefish from the Asteria like pollack...

megrim sole...

some huge cuttlefish...

haddock...

and a run of big cod...

while the beamers landed their usual selection of Dover sole...

plaice...

you wouldn't know it was a fish would you?..

twin bream...

and a sign of settled weather and summer, several dozen boxes of scallops with the Cornishman...

while the AA landed a good run of monk tails...

the Twilight III managed a few red mullet...

to accompany these cracking tub gurnards from the AA...

and a big shot of ray...

and a few big flats like these turbot...

along with the beam trawlers the netters Govenek of Ladram...

landed hake and a few tangle net caught flats...

a brace of scad...

name the fish...

and this bearded happy chappy...

along with a good shot of pollack...

and roes to boot...

things moved at a pace this morning...

with the clock going forward at the weekend morning light is delayed by an hour from the previous week...

so the lights remain on...

as the Silver Dawn arrives back from France after landing her hake in Douarnenez...

the Mair, a regular Newlyn visitor...

the Padstow boys at rest.

Hot rocks or just hot air? Cornwall, a year to the day away from Brexit.

Fish, flowers, tea and hot rocks - Newsnight's Katy Razzall reports on the preparedness of Cornwall, including the fishing industry for exiting the EU.  It's nearly two years since the last report from Cornwall - as a region it has received around £60 million pounds a year, a £1 billion in total, that's about 10% of the entire EU funding to the UK.  

How are things shaping up with exactly a year to go to Brexit to the day?