Soon-to-be-renamed St Adrian arrives in Newlyn for skipper Roger Nowell.

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 With the St Georges the only white fish landing on Friday's market and the price of fish in a gale strewn country likely to be sky high the skipper and crew were sure to benefit.......

 alongside the whitefish landing, a couple of hundred kilos of the finest Cornish herring courtesy of Newlyn's answer to American Pies' Stifler crewing aboard the Diana Marion.......

it's been a very busy year and is now too close to call for this year's shout league table.......

 with the forecast giving moderating winds - to a mere gale - the boys on the Govenek of Ladram make ready to sail.......

 along with their new sound system......

 waiting for the Eridan to sort out her problems after being towed in last evening......

 one of MTS' Falmouth tugs is weather bound on the end of the New Quay......

 swapping the wooden hulled Imogen, Roger Nowell's new command, St Adrian, just arrived from Hartlepool......

 the boat has numerous clever arrangements of deck and trawl gear with winches (port quarter) and twin net drums (under the wheelhouse) and a fish hopper offset with the starboard gantry stanchion......

 looking back aft across the tops of the two net drums and the fully sheltered deck.

Looks like another tow job - this time its two Breton boats from Guilvinec.

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With both boats travelling at around 2 knots, it looks like the Breton boat Connemara is towing the Guilvinec registered Eridan to Newlyn. The most common reason for a fishing boat getting a tow in poor weather is as a result of the propellor being fouled by the trawl when hauling in heavy seas.

Eridan entering Newlyn.

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

LEST WE FORGET



More information on those servicemen recorded on the monumnet can be found on the Roll of Honour web site for Newlyn.



Fire ship Athena brought into Carrick Roads, Falmouth.

The fire stricken Faoroese trawler, Athena has been given permission to enter the port of Falmouth after safety officers gave her the all-clear following a fire at sea in her box store. Three salvage experts are on board while she is moored on the Crossroads buoy alongside the Anglian Princess, which has moved from her normal station in Mounts Bay to stay clear of the current poor weather. The Athena will move alongside the docks later today weather permitting.

Big freezer trawlers like the Athena use block freezers to freeze the fish they catch in box-sized blocks. The frozen blocks are then put in cardboard boxes made up from on the spot. The fire is thought to have started in the store where thousands of the flat-pack cardboard boxes were stored.

At last, something to rival the Co-op's Tickler cheese.

 The heavy rains have produced a head on the stream that feeds the boating pool at Wherry town......

 where has this "Rorschach" inkblot test been created?.......

 and clamps the rest.......

 dramatic skies following another hard night light up the Mission at high water.......

 and give the harbour a stunning backdrop with almost all the fleet safely in port......

 to compliment Lentern's the butchers and opposite Newlyn's quality veg shop, the Newlyn Cheese and Charcuterie opened its doors for business at the weekend......

 the yacht Quickstep has been sailing round the world since 2001 under the skipperage of William C Turner from Dundee, Scotland.......

 latest new resident in the port, the White Heather .......

 with only the beamer Cornishman landing any volume of fish buyers were quick to pick up their winnings......

 with some getting a whole pallet's worth......

 including a good size run of cod making a showing......

alongside these well-washed congers.

Mackerel mayhem avoided! - MMO clarifies the situation for South West Handliners.

Quota secured for mackerel handline fishery in South West and Wales



The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has clarified that the handliners west coast mackerel fishery remains open. The MMO secured extra quota, and a further 50 tonnes is now available.

Liz Humphreys, Chief Marine Officer said “We are committed to keeping fishermen up to date, and the handline west coast mackerel fishery was listed in our weekly website notices detailing the potential closure. This does not mean the fishery was to close, and we have been working hard to gain extra quota.


"The fishery remains open with the extra quota secured, and we recognise the importance of the handline mackerel fishery for its sustainable and low impact fishing method.”


Quotas are set annually by the European Commission, and the MMO has the difficult balancing task of ensuring that stocks are managed throughout the year to maximise the fishing opportunities for the UK industry, whilst ensuring that stocks are not overfished and the UK government and taxpayer does not have to pay steep penalties.


The MMO has helped to gain nearly £4million worth of fish for the inshore fleet in 2010 so far, through arranging swaps and gifts of quota. Quotas worth £1.5 million were swapped out in the same period, giving a £2.5 million gain for the industry as a whole.


The west coast mackerel fishery (excluding handliners in areas VIIe to VIIh) is closed for the under 10 metre pool.

Monumental mismanagement? - has the MMO created mackerel mayhem?

Mackerel handliner making for home in a stiff Northerly breeze.

Chaos theory has it that the beat of a butterfly in China can affect the weather here in the UK - however tenuous the link you might be forgiven in thinking that no such similar repercussions could occur between the UK and Iceland with regard to mackerel - but, this week it would seem that, with around 400 tons of mackerel being gifted away to Iceland, the families of around 100 mackerel men now face a winter of starvation as, for many, their sole source of income has been wrested away from them courtesy of a mackerel swap by the MMO.