Welcome to Through the Gaps, the UK fishing industry's most comprehensive information and image resource. Newlyn is England's largest fish market and where over 50 species are regularly landed from handline, trawl, net, ring net and pot vessels including #MSC Certified #Hake, #Cornish Sardine, handlined bass, pollack and mackerel. Art work, graphics and digital fishing industry images available from stock or on commission.
Unusually this turbot has no pigment on the topside...
the inshore boats made the most of a relativey quiet weekend weather-wise so boats like the Imogen III were able to get in some good hauls like these ray...
the odd bass...
Couch's bream...
and the odd red mullet
while Still Waters picked up more ray...
tell-tale tail but from which fish?..
good enough to eat...
this time of year is not megrim sole season...
though the odd John Dory still seems to find its way over young Roger Nowell's footrope and into his cod end...
the odd monk or two...
a good day's fishing for Still Waters, the only Newlyn boat with a regular female member of the crew!...
just a few with the beam trawlers that landed...
plenty of these guys in t Ives Bay - despite being chased by bluefin tuna and minke whales...
nice work Sheila T...
just some of the macs landed...
good to see young Edwin wide awake...
plenty of frozen bait ready for the pots on the good ship Nazarene...
well before sunrise it's the ever elusive Cod at speed heading for another day handlining for bass...
Girl Pamela leaves the fishmarket...
Trinity House's Patricia at anchor...
with not a breath of wind to disturb the waters in Mounts Bay...
always good to see the Ivan Ellen tucked up in her berth...
Chris Morley making ready...
to spend another day on the pollack and bass...
as a little more light breaks into the sky...
with the new lifeboat house...
and gigs enjoying the light, even though the temp is around 0˚...
seems we have a new Xmas tree in Keel Alley this year courtesy of Newlyn Harbour Lights - made entirely from discarded trawl net and other plastic fishing gear - hats off to all those helping Newlyn to maintain its green credentials!
At first sight you have to marvel at the distance steamed by some fishing vessels to fish at the much disputed Rockall - around two days if you fish from Fleetwood. However, if you are...
a Japanese longliner Kinsai Maru No1 which was launched earlier this year and is now on her maiden voyage...
from Japan, where she left around the 17th of September to begin the almost three month steam across two oceans, first the Pacific and then the Atlantic to fish at Rockall - makes you wonder just how much tuna (assumedly bluefin) - that she has to catch to justify such a long steam for a brand new vessel! Individual bluefin tuns have made up to £2.3 million pounds on Tokyo's famous fish market - but they are landed fresh.
Everything you need to know about fish stock management and how Seafish works with ICES in assessing and calibrating fish stocks in the North East Atlantic for the benefit of UK fishing.
The implementation of responsible and sustainable fisheries management is central to the seafood industry’s social licence to operate and essential in safeguarding its future. In recent years improvements in the sustainability of fisheries have been made due to developments in fish stock assessment and management practices. Recognising the need for a shared understanding of how fish stocks are assessed and fisheries are managed Seafish has produced the overviews and guides available to download below. These documents have been designed to explain concepts in a way that can be understood without the need for complex mathematical formulae or previous training in fisheries science.Overviews These summary documents provide an outline on how stocks are assessed and managed:
Overview of Sustainable Fisheries Assessment and Management: This document gives an overview of sustainable fisheries assessment, introducing fisheries management, stock assessment and sustainable harvesting and how stocks with limited data are assessed.
Overview of Fisheries Management: This document gives an overview of the political and science framework in which fisheries management operates.
Overview of Maximum Sustainable Yield: This document gives an overview of how fishing at maximum sustainable yield (MSY) aims to catch the maximum quantity of fish that can safely be removed from the stock while maintaining its capacity to produce sustainable yields in the long term.
Overview of Data-Limited Stock Assessment: This document gives an overview of how fish stocks are assessed when there isn’t sufficient data available to use conventional models.
Guides
These more in-depth documents provide additional information on stock assessment and management techniques:
There are at least 67 scallop trawlers currently vying for room...
to fish for scallops in the Bay de Seine - there may be many more who do not have AIS fitted to their vessels - as it is not compulsory for vessels under 15 metres - though many do for security purposes.
at the moment there are just a handful of big UK scallopers fishing outside the 12 mile limit.
The Voices Of Cornwall series of CDs are not just a salute to Cornish culture. They’re a tribute to community and the universal sense of place we all need to stay grounded in a crazy, polarized world.
"As the clarity and brilliance of the natural light attract hundreds of painters to ‘Our Cornwall’, so the melodies, stories and iconic sounds have made a unique contribution worldwide. Cornish men and women have taken their joy of song and story, their delight in dialect and pride in performance to every continent.
The miners, the fishermen and the farmers have all added their unique voices and distinct characters to the kaleidoscope of colour, contrast, warmth and flavour of these enduring harmonies. The sounds, the scents and sights are part of Cornwall’s magnetic charm. In ‘The Voices of Cornwall: Kernow Through Story and Song’, a ‘Rainbow of Voices’ come together to prove that Cornwall truly is a treasure. – Douglas Williams MBE
To the fishermen: All profits from the sale of the CD go to the Fishermen’s Mission in Cornwall. The charity provides emergency support alongside practical, financial, spiritual, and emotional care. They are there to help all fishermen, active or retired, and their families.
Voices of Cornwall Volume I introduced listeners to a plethora of Cornish talent sharing Traditional Stories and Songs. Due to a positive response, the hard copies have raised almost £6000 for The Fishermen’s Mission in Cornwall If you missed the opportunity to purchase the hard copy, the CD is still available to download on iTunes, Spotify. Please visit Facebook.com/VoicesOfCornwall for more info and give us a 'Like'.
