Ray's rays raise good prices.

Line at the ready........

calm enough this morning inside the harbour........

with plenty of cuttles gracing the market floor.......

and a good run of ray........

in top condition........

along with these very bright looking gurnards for the beamers.

Busy buyers buy best bass for big bucks.

Evidence of the damage the local seal population can inflict on fish caught in nets was evident on the market this morning.....

nearly 30 kilos of good monk tails with bite-sized chunks missing......

not that that deterred the buyers from snapping up a market full of quality fish......

like this box length bass.......

with plenty more in the medium size range all loooking like they are London bound.......

at the other end of the market the Lisa Jacqueline's shot of cuttles made good money.....

down the quay, the Govenek of Ladram lays outside the St Georges which is currently waiting for a replacement flexible coupling twixt the main engine and gearbox.......

there are still some of Barrie Briscoe's sketches up for grabs at Badcock's gallery........

while Newlyn Design Centre has all the apparel needed to kit out your favourite skipper.......

looks like the beach clean was a success at the weekend.......

and with the wind likely to hang around an easterly direction this week the shoreline should stay reasonably clear.

Beachcombers wanted.

 The professionals are on the case after another freshy night on the prom.......

 still at work first thing.......

 over to the volunteers on Sunday to do their bit tidying up the shoreline....... 

 new wire for the new trawler in town......

 the harbour is looking to pioneer an environmentally friendly fender system, just as well as at the moment the worms are having a feast.......

 this is what the fenders look like before the worms get the munchies........

 no rush at the weekend......

 he wishes!..........

 looks like Reg Perrin's missus has been on the beach........

 decorated by some stray weed overnight.........

 those dredges give the hull a severe beating on the scalloper Jacoba necessitating replacement plate work.......

some one's got to get their feet wet and scrape the weed and barnacles off the tug!

Treasure hunter off the Scillies.

It seems that the world's most successful gold digger continues to scour the waters of the Western Approaches.

Hugh's campaign attracts nearly 30,000 signatories.

Conservation minded chef and food campaigner, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's FishFight campaign, designed to draw attention to the waste issue surrounding discarded fish at sea in time for the annual EU quota carve-up has attracted nearly 30,000 signatures in a couple of days. All the national papers have run stories and managed to come up with some unusual figures - in the Independent's article one reader makes sense of the more likely figure of many millions of fish being discarded than the quoted 1 million!

Avon Valley, on passage and then towed to Newlyn.

At 1940, lat night the 12m metre wooden fishing vessel Avon Valley contacted Falmouth Coastguard and alerted them that she was taking water. The boat was on passage from Falmouth to Milford Haven in Wales. FCG tasked both Sennen and Penlee lifeboats to assist, with Rescue 193 on standby at Culdrose. The two men aboard the sinking vessel were able to take a pump from the Sennen lifeboat to help stem the flow of water to the fishroom. Penlee lifeboat then took the vessel in tow back to Newlyn.

Mevagissey - high water came early for some.

Height of the floods looking into the square in Mevagissey yesterday.