#FishyFriday in Newlyn.

Thursday morning saw the Cornishman head to the fish market to land... 

then in the afternoon the hake netter Ajax was in with her first trip following her re-engine and refit...

handliners arrive at all times of the day...

and so on to another very dark #FishyFriday morning...

with the inshore boats still catching plenty of rays...

while the Ajax...

landed a good sized run of hake...

and a handful of dogfish...

some take dogs for a walk while others prefer less demanding boxes...

good to see the boats donating boxes of fish towards the cost of the Christmas lights...

a late season Mediterranean octopus...

along with some St Ives herring...

and handline mackerel...

meanwhile the Stelissa took advantage of a high water landing direct to the fish market...

just ahead of the Joy of Ladram...

skipper Ryan setting the example...

as he and his crew all wear pfds these days...

seems that Brixham's black gold not so abundant these days...

scarping those rocky outcrops always produces a few of these slippery characters...

good to see young George has a market for these spiny creatures...

it is still surprising that many of the boats do not cut out monk cheeks given how many monk are landed in Newlyn...

bass back on the menu again, no doubt at a certain Mr Outlaw's restaurant at Port Isaac...

buyers busy buying...

not so many discards today...

but oodles of hake for tomorrow!

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Busy mid-week fish market in Newlyn.

Just some of the thousand plus boxes landed on the market for this morning's market...

like these inshore John Dory...

undulate ray...

with their mysterious markings...

both types of ray that sport spots but which is which?..

some tagged line caught bass...

more meaty ray wings...

the odd big monk tail...

and the spotted and not so sotted plaice...

the inevitable dose of haddock...

and much more for tomorrow's market... 

the odd ling still finds ts way into people's nets...

while the St Ives boys continue to enjoy heavy mackerel fishing again...

staple diet for beam trawlers, monk fish...

a big beautiful line caught and tagged bass...

ready for packing...

as another handline fisherman heads out of the gaps...

Le Men Dhu one step closer to being ready for sea.

Padstow's pioneering lobster hatchery.

This little chap is juts one of 11,000 young lobsters that the amazing team at Padstow Lobster Hatchery have ready for distribution around the coast of Cornwall in the coming weeks..

here the hatchery's Ben Marshall explains how lobsters held in the centre...

don't  produce the familiar blue pigment when grown to tis size unless they are kept in the wild - the 11,000 lobsters are being looked after in a local Mussel Farm...

the hatchery took the decision years ago to invest in DNA sampling all the incoming female lobsters that are used to provide eggs for fertilisation - the results of that decision are now paying a huge dividend - recently it has come to light that as the result of a French lobster breeding programme back in the 1980s - which saw a few thousand lobsters bred in France and released into the waters off Sardinia - around 60% of lobsters tested in the Mediterranean are of Cornish-Breton decent!..

here Ben shows Matt Slater from the Cornwall Good Seafood Guide the holding boxes used to transport the tiny lobsters ready for seeding in the inshore waters around the coast.