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.
the yacht Shaker Too puts ashore so that an injured crewmen with a suspected broken wrist can get treatment...
a washdown for the @Penleelifeboat relief lifeboat Osier 17-34 after her first shout...
still up on the slip with more work to do, the Twlight III...
little 'n large...
fuel time for young Mr Nudd and the Intuition...
in full flow, the Coombe river...
wends its way past the Newlyn Filmhouse, the first time there has been a cinema in Newlyn since the Gaiety cinema closed at the end of the 1960s, the independent cinema is housed in a converted fish processing building...
in a street which still boasts the like of shellfish merchants Harvey & Sons...
and W James...
making her way into Newlyn...
the Padstow registered crabber Galcadora...
Robbie, skipper of the Algrie studies his starboard side gear which he is rebuilding...
which when completed will look something like the work of art that George Stephens maintains on the James RH PZ78....
nothing like having 7 tons of steel hanging over your head while you work.
Good to see a main news channel pick up on the EU referendum story with regard to the fishing industry - correspondent Martin Geissler puts the idea out there that the case for Brexit is not quite as simple as many would love to believe.
Analysis from ITV News correspondent Martin Geissler:
I've been coming to this corner of Scotland for more than 20 years, speaking to trawlermen and hearing their concerns.
They are passionate people, many are from families who have fished these They have a long list of gripes, all directed at the EU, an institution that's strangling them, or so they claim.
Many see June's referendum as a huge opportunity. A chance to "give Britain back control of its own waters".
But the reality of a Brexit wouldn't be as straightforward as they might like to believe.
They would still face fishing quotas, which would be negotiated by the same politicians they've long accused of letting them down. They'd still have to trade with our European neighbours - a massive market for our fishing industry.
And they'd almost certainly still have to share waters with boats from other countries, who'd have the right to fish there too.
There are few guarantees in any of this, and the vote comes just as the industry is enjoying increasing profits.
After long, lean years, the tide finally seems to be turning for a once embattled industry, making this decision, perhaps, harder than it might have been before.
Evidence of just how much fish there are swimming in the Western Approaches, after one day at sea the netter Ajax, one of twelve MSC Certified Cornish hake boats returns to Newlyn with 300 boxes of hake on board having shot two-thirds of her complement of nets...
all set to land...
for the big Belgian beam trawler, Francine it is time to overhaul her huge trawls...
this was the afterdeck three crew members were dramatically airlifted from the Francine the other day after they were overcome with fumes when their coffee machine caught fire, seems Belgian coffee is as strong as their beer...
the guys on the deck are happy in their work...
with plenty still to do before they can set sail again.
