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 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 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.

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.

Don't miss this opportunity to livestream with Newfoundland's IMC Conference in Newfoundland!

An open invitation to all fishermen and others involved in the industry from IMCC in Newfoundland

The broadcast should start around 1830 Thursday evening (UK time) .

Join Maria Campbell Plymouth University, Edd Hind Manchester Metropolitan University, Laurence Hartwell Truro & Penwith College, Richard Lilley Cardiff University and Katrina Borrow Mindfully Wired Communications at the International Marine Conservation Congress in St Johns on Thursday 4th August at 630 pm for a live stream of this facilitated discussion using Bambuser

We piloted this tech at the finale of the Gap2 Project, and a conference that was capped at 120 attendees, reached over 400. Laurence set up a dedicated station in one of the UK's largest fishing ports, Newlyn, and fishermen could join in on whatever aspect of the meeting they wanted to be part of, and thus contribute to the conference.

How can we make marine science matter if we do not allow all stakeholders/actors to be present in this dialogue? We must be better at using technology that facilitates stakeholder engagement and enables co-ownership: Critical if we are to encourage active participation in marine conservation and to support evidence based decision making.

All in a day in Newlyn.

Keeping the ocean clean, another bag of sea litter from the Karen of Ladram...

both sets of beam trawls to be overhauled on the Sapphire II...

luckily, one of Newlyn's finest is on deck to assist...

that name is a blast from the past...

a busy time for the inshore boats...

just the two beam trawlers for this morning's market...

just enough to keep the buyers happy...

with limited supplies of Dover sole - especially given the number that are dumped at sea because of a lack of quota, yet they are more abundant than ever with Belgian beam trawlers filling their cod-ends......

much the same story with the haddock, all set to become the problem choke species when the LO comes into full force...

the mighty mackerel returns...

guess the fish?...

a 'dinner plate' turbot...

almost the end of the sale on Newlyn market...

skipper Don Liddicoat, the face of a man who has been there done that and has a draw load of t-shirts to prove it...

as he uses a spring to get the 200 ton Filadelfia away from the market quayside...

before heading back to a berth in what is a crowded harbour over the spring tide...

a chance for some  of the netters to get their annual visit over and done with for a coat of anti-fouling on the hull and new anodes...

there's a top coat of paint just gone on the Golden Harvest looks like a Through the Gaps scene on her stern...

with her new numbers...

and name she is all set for her first night on the sardines, maybe Friday if the weather holds good...

there's some powerful things going on on the Mount again with some Divine intervention possibly.