Coastguard Cuts - public meeting at Tremough Campus.

PUBLIC MEETING IN FALMOUTH TO DISCUSS COASTGUARD MODERNISATION PROPOSALS


The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is holding a public meeting in Falmouth on Wednesday, 9 March 2011, about the proposed Coastguard modernisation programme.


The meeting will provide an opportunity for the community around the existing Falmouth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) to hear more about the proposals, ask questions of MCA representatives and air their views.


The meeting at Tremough Campus, Treliever Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ, will be independently chaired and begin at 7:30pm. The meeting is expecting to draw to a close by 9:00pm.


The proposals for Coastguard modernisation, together with the consultation documents, can be found on the MCA website at http://www.mcga.gov.uk/ and http://www.dft.gov.uk/.

Media cameras and other recording equipment will not be allowed into the venue, however an MCA spokesman will be available after the meeting for interviews or comments. An MCA media officer will be on site at the venue. Please contact the number below for more information about the meeting at Falmouth.

For further details contact:

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency Press Office

023 8032 9401

More fish food for thought - from Rose Prince.

Regular food columnist Rose Prince has taken the fishing management system in Iceland as a possible role model for the British Fishing industry. In one regard, with a 200 mile limit to play with Iceland is out of the starting blocks and way down the track before Fishing UK can get going on the race to a fair fisheries policy. Read the full article as it appears in the Daily Telegraph.

Busy Newlyn fish market for Cefas.

Cefas Sam desperately trying to stay one step ahead of the buyers as the auction moves round the market........

a handful of early market visitors make notes......

there's evidence of a black gold trail.......

and with over 20 tubs of cuttles for the Chloe T alone, at around £3 per kilo, that's nearly £1200 a tub........

which means that all hands are lagged in sepia ink........

as they box the fish.......

the William Harvey is up for sale, more pics on the Fishing Boats for Sale page.....

from the days of the little known Cornish Calcified Seaweed Company at Truro......

plenty of work still to do on the Jacoba's new dredges......

this week should see a fleet of luggers and other traditional working boats begin to fill the almost empty historic Old Quay in Newlyn, all set for Painting Day.........

maybe they were just fed up trying to think of a name for her?

St Ives - From here to Modernity.

Signs like this one have appeared all over Cornwall, with clues as to the identity of each symbol, head for this site......

one of several 'containers' that make up the Frome her  to Modernty exhibition works that are to be found around the county is currently sat on the prom at the Wherry Town end........

Show One runs till the 20th March.

and has put to rest the mystery of the strange signs seen leading towards the prom.......

Show One runs till the 20th March.

but has container number two appeared in the Jubilee Bathing Pool further along the prom or is it over in the National Trust Car Park at Gwithian, near Hayle?

MCZs - Marine Conservation Zones are here!

Make sure to visit the new interactive web site for the latest chart information regrading MCZs........

An example from the new interactive MCZ site - simple registration required first.

Sure to provoke a huge debate the proposed MCZ (Marine Conservation Zones) zones made public today have been published on line for the first time. After consultations spread over several years and involving thousands of respondents from Kayakers and Surfers to Divers, Anglers and Fishermen, Natural England together with the regional bodies Balanced Seas, Finding Sanctuary, Net Gain and Irish Sea Conservation Zones have delivered the basis for managing the environment and conservation areas at sea here in the South West and elsewhere.

Containers on the prom?

You won't find too many other towns in the UK with high street shops like this...... 

mirror-like morning in Penzance wet dock.......

with just a gentle swell moving the waters off the prom.......

and leaving a regular pattern on the shingle beach........

these granite steps on the prom have been trod by many feet over the years.......

someone spent the night on their own.........

if Euchre's your game then don't miss this tournament with prizes coming soon at the Star Inn opposite the fish market.......

almost at the end of a major refit, the Jacoba is back in Newlyn........

and her gear now being put back together for the start of the scallop season......

not he best job but someone has to load up the crab bait, the smellier the better for the crab of course.......

signs of that winch job underway on the big beamer.........

well, perhaps the man has his eye on another site with more room.......

just round the corner.......

a reminder for the fleet that the iceworks is having some major repairs undertaken in a couple of weeks.......

brightly coloured visitor on the pontoons........

with visiting lifeboat on the end.

Escabeche and sweet potato!