South Devon crab is the best! so says chef Mitch Tonks.

Day one of Dartmouth Food festival sees Sou'west Chef Mitch Tonks of RockFish Grill and SeaFood Market fame serve up a live demo in whole crab preparation.

Mitch filmed while supervising England rugby star Matt Dawson doing the cooking on the end of the quay in Newlyn a few year's ago.

Clue - Canapes Girls Inn - what you won't see in Mount's Bay next year.

The government's spending cuts announced yesterday pervade every aspect of life in the UK and the maritime trades are no exception......

as a result of the cuts, one morning next year Tom will no longer look out over the Bay and the bright deck lights aboard the 1600Hp MCA guard ship Anglian Princess.......

as she, and four other MCA ETVs, will have their charters taken away from them. Instead, the protection of coastal waters will become the sole responsibility of all those who use or watch over the waters around the coast. French waters in the Western Approaches are served by the privately owned Abeille fleet based in Brest. The Abeille Bourbon with 21,000Hp makes her one of the most powerful ETVs in the world - and she needed every one of those in this rescue incident filmed in the Bay of Biscay.

Good mix of quality fish for Friday.

An eerie set of animal figures front the window in Badcock's Gallery......

are joined by Warren's the bakers own window display in the run up to Halloween......

fish were on sale at both ends of the market this morning......

with signs of big squid still in evidence.......

regular Brixham visitor Three Sons takes a break.......

so that's where all the Wherry Town beach pebbles are disappearing too!......

the full extent of trade in Penzance's wet dock with pleasure, leisure, cargo and fishing vessels all in the same shot - as the future of the port's harbour infrastructure gets closer to realisation of some sort as Cornwall Council go with 'Option A'.

Full moon fish

Cornish sardines landed late evening under the light of a full moon.

when the dawn peepeth through - after the coldest night since the summer!

 "When the dawn peepeth through", looking beyond the Anglian Princess to the dishes and wind farm on the Lizard.......

 The Anglian Princess is back on station in the Bay......

 with winter fast approaching most of the yachts have now come out of the water in Penzance......

 results of a night's work for a sardine boat......

 though there's a straggler left on the quay that the gulls haven't yet spotted......

 the buyers have to move to the western end of the market quickly......

waiting in the wings is Wings.

Out hunting.

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An early evening start for the small fleet of ringnetters heading out across the Bay to chase the shoals of Cornish Sardines........

end of this neap tide sees a couple of netters putting their trips ashore at the market......

reflecting an interest in Newlyn copper and metal beating........

in town, St John's Hall is still under wraps.

QM2 surrounded by a motley mixture of fishing vessels south of Land's End.

Pick up on VesselTracker's AIS chart for Penzance - an interesting mixture of fishing vessels are spotted in the vicinity of the Queen Mary 2 as she heads West bound for New York. Amazingly, she has a number of web cams on her bridge that can be seen here.